Case Name: Michael JONES, Petitioner, v. The CITY OF McKINNEY, Texas, Respondent
Court: Supreme Court of Texas
Jurisdiction: Texas
Decision Date: 1995-11-02
Citations: 910 S.W.2d 933
Docket Number: No. 95-0555
Parties: Michael JONES, Petitioner, v. The CITY OF McKINNEY, Texas, Respondent.
Judges: 
Reporter: South Western Reporter Second Series
Volume: 910
Pages: 933–934

Head Matter:
Michael JONES, Petitioner, v. The CITY OF McKINNEY, Texas, Respondent.
No. 95-0555.
Supreme Court of Texas.
Nov. 2, 1995.
Rehearing Overruled Dec. 22, 1995.
Lance S. Baxter, Plano, for Petitioner.
Grady R. Thompson, McKinney, for Respondent.

Opinion:
PER CURIAM.
Petitioner Michael Jones sued his employer, the City of McKinney, for allegedly firing him in retaliation for filing a workers' compensation claim. The jury returned findings favorable to Jones, but the trial court rendered a take-nothing judgment for the City based on sovereign immunity. The court of appeals affirmed, holding that the Legislature, under the 1989 amendments to the Political Subdivisions Act, see Tex.Lab.Code § 504.002, did not waive sovereign immunity for retaliatory discharge claims [1995 WL 26803]. We have today reached the opposite conclusion in Kuhl v. City of Garland, 910 S.W.2d 929 (Tex.1995). Accordingly, without hearing oral argument, a majority of the Court reverses the judgment of the court of appeals and remands this cause to that court for consideration of the parties' remaining points of error.