Court Opinion

ID: 5089370
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2021-10-01 14:59:35.18193+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T14:22:17.310618
License: Public Domain

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 ofGarland, 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.