PERRY v. BROWN

No. 03-01-00341-CV.

68 S.W.3d 734 (2001)

Rick PERRY, in his official capacity as Governor of the State of Texas, Henry Cuellar, in his official capacity as Secretary of State of the State of Texas, and Bill Ratliff, in his official capacity as Lieutenant Governor of the State of Texas, Appellants, v. David BROWN, David O. Zambrano and Joy Smith, Appellees.

Court of Appeals of Texas, Austin.

October 4, 2001.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Andy Taylor, Jan Soifer, E. Lee Parsley, Locke, Liddell & Sapp, LLP, Philip Andrew Lionberger, Lisa R. Eskow, Asst. Sol. Gen., Julie Caruthers Parsley, Deputy Sol. Gen., C. Robert Heath, Steve Bickerstaff, David Mendez, Bickerstaff, Heath, Smiley, Pollan, Kever & McDaniel, LLP, Austin, for Perry & Cuellar.

E. Leon Carter, Barbara K. Salyers, Thomas L. Case, Case, Carter, Salyers & Henry, P.C., Dallas, for Ratliff.

James P. Allison, Robert T. Bass, Allison, Bass & Associates, L.L.P., Austin, for appellees.

Before Chief Justice ABOUSSIE, Justices KIDD and YEAKEL.


ABOUSSIE, Chief Justice.

In this interlocutory appeal regarding state legislative redistricting, we consider whether the trial court committed reversible error by denying a plea to the jurisdiction based upon issues of ripeness. Applying principles recently enunciated by this Court and the Texas Supreme Court in Perry v. Del Rio, we will affirm.1 See Perry v. Del Rio, 66 S.W.3d 239 (Tex...

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