EXXON MOBIL CORP. v. RINCONES

No. 15-0240.

520 S.W.3d 572 (2017)

EXXON MOBIL CORPORATION, WHM Custom Services, Inc., and DISA, Inc., Petitioners, v. Gilberto RINCONES, Respondent.

Supreme Court of Texas.

OPINION DELIVERED: May 26, 2017.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

David W. Waddell , Houston, for Amicus Curiae Houston Area Safety Council.

Audrey Mullert Vicknair , Law Office of Audrey Mullert Vicknair, Corpus Christi, Keith B. Sieczkowski , Clinton Twaddell III , Branscomb P.C., Corpus Christi, Nina Cortell , Allen Ryan Paulsen , Haynes and Boone, LLP, Dallas, Polly B. Fohn , Haynes & Boone LLP, Houston, Holly H. Williamson , Sheri L. Caldwell , Hunton & Williams LLP, Houston, for Petitioners.

Ricardo R. Godinez , Godinez Law Firm, P.C., McAllen, Gilberto Hinojosa , Law Offices of Gilberto Hinojosa & Associates, P.C., Brownsville, for Respondent.


This is a complex employment-discrimination case implicating the Texas Commission on Human Rights Act and multiple common-law tort doctrines. It arises from a report that Gilberto Rincones, a refinery technician, failed an employment-related drug test. Rincones sued his employer, WHM Custom Services...

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