WASSON INTERESTS v. CITY OF JACKSONVILLE

NO. 14-0645.

489 S.W.3d 427 (2016)

WASSON INTERESTS, LTD., Petitioner, v. CITY OF JACKSONVILLE, Texas, Respondent.

Supreme Court of Texas.

Opinion Delivered: April 1, 2016.

Rehearing Denied June 3, 2016.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Barbara E. Rosenberg , Assistant City Attorney, Charles Steven Estee , Office of the Dallas City Attorney, James B. Pinson , Assistant City Attorney, Warren M.S. Ernst , Dallas City Attorney, for Amicus Curiae City of Dallas.

Joseph M. Nixon, Beirne, Maynard & Parsons, L.L.P., Houston, for Amicus Curiae pro se.

Heather Mahurin Lockhart , Texas Municipal League, Austin, for Amicus Curiae Texas Municipal League and Texas City Attorneys Association.

Arthur J. Anderson , Christopher Alan Brown , Winstead PC, Dallas, David Fowler Johnson , Winstead PC, Fort Worth, for Amicus Curiae Trinity East Energy, LLC.

Jeffrey R. Pruitt , Jeffrey R. Pruitt, Attorney at Law, Corpus Christi, for Petitioner.

D. Brett Brewer , Steven Rade Guy , The Norman Law Firm, Jacksonville, for Respondent.


Texas is inviolably sovereign. In re BP Oil Supply Co., 317 S.W.3d 915, 919 (Tex.App. — Houston [14th Dist.] 2010, no pet.) (orig.proceeding).1 Such sovereignty is inherent in its statehood, Alden v. Maine,

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