Court Opinion

ID: 9672418
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-24 03:54:36.693119+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:16:15.940113
License: Public Domain

BURGESS, Justice,
dissenting.
I respectfully dissent. I would sustain the Commission’s point of error attacking venue. Tex.Health & Safety Code Ann. § 361.321(a) (Yernon 1992) establishes Travis County as the proper county of venue when appealing an action by the Commission. Appellees state in their brief that “Mppellant does not point to, and cannot point to, any ruling, order, decision or other act of the Commission which is involved in this case”, (emphasis theirs) However, but for the executive director’s determination that the subject property was to be listed in the Texas Register in accordance with Tex. Health & Safety Code Ann. §§ 361.181-.202 (Vernon 1992) and that appellees were potentially liable parties, there would have been no case and controversy and no necessity for a suit for declaratory judgment to be filed in Jasper County. An attack on the constitutionality of the enforcement scheme is but a more grandiose way of attacking the entire enforcement scheme. Therefore, looking at the substance of the complaint, I conclude section 361.321(a) is controlling. Rather than abate the appeal, I would sustain the point of error and order the matter transferred to a district court in Travis County.