Court Opinion

ID: 9681217
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-24 07:46:09.057244+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:17:32.722428
License: Public Domain

RAY, Justice,
dissenting.
I respectfully dissent. The majority today ignores stare decisis and needlessly overrules the court’s recent decisions in Bessent and Beaumont Enterprise. Bessent v. Times-Herald Printing Co., 709 S.W.2d 635 (Tex.1986); Beaumont Enter*567prise & Journal v. Smith, 687 S.W.2d 729 (Tex.1985). While stare decisis should remain a flexible doctrine, I see no compelling reason to overturn established Texas summary judgment law.
Even if the majority feels it must overrule Bessent and Beaumont Enterprise, the very least it could do would be to remand for a new trial in the interest of justice pursuant to rule 180 of the Texas Rules of Appellate Procedure. Mayor Brand justifiably relied on our opinions in Bessent and Beaumont Enterprise. He should not be punished for failing to divine the court’s future development of the law.