Court Opinion

ID: 9811896
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-31 22:32:29.908111+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T15:22:30.358992
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SCOTT BRISTER, Chief Justice,
concurring.
The Whistleblower Act requires claimants to invoke grievance procedures within 90 days after an alleged violation. See Tex. Gov’t Code Ann. § 554.006(b). I *326agree with the Court that Ms. Berry has raised no valid basis for failing to do so.
We recently held in University of Texas Medical Branch v. Barrett, 112 S.W.3d 815 (Tex.App.-Houston [14th Dist.] 2003, n.p.h.), that failure to comply with the various deadlines of the Whistleblower Act is not a jurisdictional defect. Instead, Berry’s failure should have been raised by motion for summary judgment rather than a plea to the jurisdiction. See University of Houston v. Elthon, 9 S.W.3d 351, 356 (Tex.App.-Houston [14th Dist.] 1999, pet. dism’d w.o.j.). But because the result unquestionably would have been the same, I concur in the result of the Court’s judgment.