Texas Employee Leasing Case Law
Please find, below, selected case laws decided by Supreme Court of Texas or Court of Appeals of Texas where the terms employee leasing has been mentioned. You are not to rely on these cases as legal advice nor should you rely on them for accuracy. Please see Terms of Service.
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Dallas County v. Holmes - 12/5/2001
Justice Rosenberg
Glen Holmes sued Dallas County for damages, alleging wrongful termination in retaliation for filing a workers' compensation claim, see Tex. Lab. Code Ann. §§ 451.001, 451.002(a) (Vernon 1996), and fraud. The...
Davis v. Education Service Center - 12/5/2001
Virginia Davis was employed by Education Service Center, Region VIII. She sued Region VIII and her supervisor, Scott Ferguson, for retaliation under Tex. Lab. Code Ann. § 21.055 (Vernon 1996) and for intentional infliction of...
Peters v. Blockbuster - 12/4/2001
This appeal involves one of many pending dueling class actions against Blockbuster, Inc. All the class actions relate to Blockbuster's charging of fees for rental items. The plaintiffs, Kim Ann Scott and Malia Knight, and Blockbuster...
Millan v. Dean Witter Reynolds - 11/30/2001
Dissenting opinion by: Karen Angelini, Justice
AFFIRMED IN PART; REVERSED AND REMANDED IN PART
We are asked to decide whether appellee Dean Witter Reynolds should be held vicariously liable for the fraudulent acts of one of...
City of Laredo v. Molina - 11/30/2001
Sitting: Tom Rickhoff, Justice, Catherine Stone, Justice, Sarah B. Duncan, Justice (concurring in the judgment only)
AFFIRMED IN PART and REVERSED IN PART
The City of Laredo ("the City") was found liable, after a trial by...
Wal-Mart Stores - 11/29/2001
Opinion by Chief Justice Valdez
Luis A. Canchola brought suit against Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. ("Wal-Mart"), his former employer, for disability discrimination and intentional infliction of emotional distress. According to...
Baty v. Protech Insurance Agency - 11/29/2001
MOTIONS FOR REHEARING GRANTED AND OVERRULED; OPINION FILED APRIL 5, 2001, WITHDRAWN; AFFIRMED, IN PART, REVERSED AND REMANDED, IN PART; AND OPINION ON REHEARING FILED NOVEMBER 29, 2001.
OPINION ON REHEARING
This case arises...
State v. Reid - 11/29/2001
The issue before us is whether information gleaned by a juror from a newspaper article and then related by him to other jurors during deliberations constitutes an "outside influence" justifying a new trial. Contending that a juror's...
Labor Ready Central III - 11/29/2001
Opinion by Justice Rodriguez
This is an interlocutory appeal from the trial court's denial of a motion to compel arbitration filed by appellants, Labor Ready Central III, L.P. (Labor Ready) and District Manager Luis Trevino....
Larson v. Family Violence and Sexual Assault Prevention Center of South Texas - 11/29/2001
Opinion by Justice Rodriguez
Appellant, Sandra Larson, appeals from a summary judgment dismissing her causes of action against appellees, Family Violence and Sexual Assault Prevention Center of South Texas, The Woman's Shelter,...
City of University Park v. Van Doren - 11/27/2001
Justice FitzGerald
The City of University Park appeals the judgment rendered against it in favor of Thomas L. Van Doren following a jury trial in this workers' compensation discrimination case. The City brings issues asserting:...
Ingalls v. McQueeney Gypsum Co. - 11/21/2001
AFFIRMED IN PART, REVERSED AND REMANDED IN PART
Mitchell Ingalls appeals the summary judgment granted in favor of McQueeney Gypsum Company ("McQueeney") and Temple-Inland Forest Products Corporation ("Temple-Inland"). We affirm...
Southeast Texas Industries v. Helmerich & Payne International Drilling Co. - 11/21/2001
AFFIRMED
Southeast Texas Industries ("STI") appeals the trial court's summary judgment in favor of Helmerich & Payne International Drilling Co. ("H&P;) in STI's indemnity action. STI argues the exclusive remedy provisions...
Morris v. Equifax Credit Information Services - 11/21/2001
This is a retaliatory discharge case in which the trial court rendered summary judgment in favor of Equifax Credit Information Services, Inc. d/b/a Equifax Risk Management Services (Equifax), the defendant in the court below. Equifax...
Ag v. Blum - 11/21/2001
REVERSED AND RENDERED
Lonza AG appeals an interlocutory order denying its special appearance to contest personal jurisdiction. We find insufficient contacts with the State of Texas to assert general jurisdiction over the Swiss...
Canady v. Bradley - 11/15/2001
Appellant Warren P. Canady appeals the trial court's dismissal of his lawsuit as frivolous. In three issues he contends the trial court (1) violated the Supremacy Clause of the United States Constitution in dismissing his lawsuit;...
Orozco v. Old Republic Insurance Co. - 11/15/2001
Appellant Alfonso Orozco ("Orozco") appeals the judgment rendered in favor of Appellee Old Republic Insurance Company ("Old Republic"). On appeal, Mr. Orozco raises six issues: (1) The failure to include Mr. Orozco's date of MMI in...
American Motorists Insurance Co. v. Fodge - 11/15/2001
On Petition for Review from the Court of Appeals for the Fifth District of Texas
The important issue in this case is whether a compensation claimant can prosecute a lawsuit against a carrier to recover benefits and damages...
Nash v. Harris County - 11/8/2001
Motion for Rehearing denied January 18, 2002.
JOHNNY NASH, PETITIONER v. HARRIS COUNTY, RESPONDENT
The opinion of the court was delivered by: Per Curiam
On Petition for Review from the Court of Appeals for the...
Rouch v. Continental Airlines - 11/7/2001
AFFIRMED
This appeal arises out of Cindy Rouch's wrongful termination and defamation action against Continental Airlines, Inc. The jury entered a verdict in Rouch's favor on her defamation claim. The trial court, however, granted...
Foster v. State - 11/7/2001
This is an appeal from a conviction for the offense of Murder. Following the jury's verdict, punishment was assessed by the trial court at confinement in the Institutional Division of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice for a...
Hawkland v. Reliance National Indemnity Co. - 11/7/2001
Justice Morris
In this workers' compensation case, Robert Hawkland appeals a summary judgment granted in favor of Reliance National Indemnity Company. Hawkland contends the trial court erred in holding that his original...
Hart v. Texas Workforce Commission - 11/1/2001
Appellant Anita Y. Hart appeals a trial court judgment affirming a Texas Workforce Commission ("TWC") decision that she is ineligible to receive unemployment benefits because her former employer, Texas Workers' Compensation Insurance...
Robbins v. Reliance Insurance Company - 11/1/2001
Appellant Maurice Robbins, as executor of the estate of Charles M. Robbins, appeals from a summary judgment granted in favor of Reliance Insurance Company, appellee. Appellant's suit seeks benefits under an accidental death policy. ...
Rodriguez v. State - 9/27/2001
This is an appeal from jury convictions for two (2) counts of engaging in organized criminal activity. The jury assessed punishment at twenty (20) years' imprisonment in the Institutional Division of the Texas
Department of...
In re R.M. - 9/26/2001
AFFIRMED
R.M. pleaded true to indecency with a child. The trial court sentenced R.M. to two years probation with the first six months consisting of sex offender intensive supervision. R.M. appeals in four points of error...
Wickware v. Thaler - 9/20/2001
Appellant, an inmate in the Texas Department of Criminal Justice--Institutional Division (TDCJ), acting pro se and proceeding in forma pauperis, appeals the dismissal of his civil rights lawsuit against Warden Richard Thaler and 42...
Cortez v. Progressive County Mutual Insurance Co. - 9/13/2001
As amended December 20, 2001.
ANTONIO CORTEZ, APPELLANT v. PROGRESSIVE COUNTY MUTUAL INSURANCE COMPANY, APPELLEE
FROM THE DISTRICT COURT OF TRAVIS COUNTY, 353RD JUDICIAL DISTRICT NO. 97-05861, HONORABLE W. JEANNE MEURER,...
Wamget v. State - 9/12/2001
Appellant was convicted of murder and sentenced to sixteen years imprisonment. On appeal he claimed the trial court abused its discretion in overruling a Batson challenge. The Court of Appeals affirmed. Wamget v. State, No....
Wortham v. Diamond Shamrock - 9/6/2001
John Wortham appeals a final summary judgment in favor of Diamond Shamrock, Inc., Diamond Shamrock Refining and Marketing Company, and Petro/Chem Environmental Services, Inc. (collectively "Appellees"). Finding no error, we affirm. ...
Bass v. Texas Association of School Boards - 9/6/2001
This case involves a single issue. That is, "When a party appealing a decision by the workers' compensation board files suit within the statutory time period but does not name and serve the correct defendant within that time period,...
City of Alamo v. Espinosa - 8/31/2001
Opinion by Justice Hinojosa
On April 7, 1998, appellee, Arturo Espinosa, was demoted from chief of the Alamo Police Department to a lesser position. He sued appellants, the City of Alamo and its employees, agents, and all those...
City of Hidalgo v. Wisdom - 8/31/2001
Opinion by Justice Rodriguez
Appellee, James Wisdom, sued appellant, the City of Hidalgo (the City), for wrongful discharge under chapter 451 of the Texas Labor Code. See Tex. Lab. Code Ann. § 451.001 (Vernon 1996). Wisdom...
Southwestern Bell Telephone Co. v. Garza - 8/31/2001
Opinion by Justice Cantu
This is an appeal by Southwestern Bell Telephone Company from a jury verdict favoring former employee, David Garza, in his suit for discrimination and termination in violation of the Texas...
Colonial Casualty Insurance Co. - 8/31/2001
Opinion by Justice Dorsey
Colonial Casualty Co. (Colonial) appeals from a judgment, following a bench trial, which found that the injured employee, Osler G. Garcia, had sustained a compensable injury to his cervical spine and...
Union Carbide Corp. - 8/31/2001
Union Carbide Corporation appeals from a judgment, following a jury verdict, awarding Delfa Mayfield damages for his suit for discrimination under the Texas Commission on Human Rights Act (the TCHRA). Carbide appeals by ten issues....
4N International - 8/31/2001
This is an appeal from the trial court's summary judgment in a contract dispute between appellant 4N International, Inc. and appellee Metropolitan Transit Authority. Both parties urge us to follow federal cases interpreting...
Teco-Westinghouse Motor Co. v. Gonzalez - 8/31/2001
Opinion by Justice Yanez
This is an interlocutory, accelerated appeal under section 15.003 of the Texas Civil Practice and Remedies Code. See Tex. Civ. Prac. & Rem. Code Ann. § 15.003 (Vernon Supp. 2001). Appellant,...
In re Estate of Cooper - 8/30/2001
This is a will contest in which Kathleen Kennedy Lieberman appeals a summary judgment in favor of the executor, John Earl Smithey. Maintaining she had been a beneficiary under previous wills of decedent Dorothy L. Cooper, Lieberman...
Dodge v. Hunt Petroleum Corp. - 8/30/2001
Patricia L. Dodge brings this appeal from the trial court's order granting summary judgment in favor of Hunt Petroleum Corporation (Hunt). Dodge brings five points of error contending the trial court erred in granting the summary...
Texas Workers ' Compensation Insurance Fund v. Impace International - 8/30/2001
ON MOTION FOR REHEARING
We grant the motion for rehearing filed by the Texas Workers Compensation Insurance Fund. We withdraw the opinion and judgment dated June 29, 2001 and substitute the following opinion in its place. ...
Moore v. Anderson - 8/23/2001
Opinion by Justice Hill
David Moore appeals from a summary judgment that he take nothing in his claims of sex discrimination and harassment, wrongful discharge, defamation, and intentional infliction of emotional distress...
Camunes v. Frontier Enterprises - 8/22/2001
AFFIRMED
Patrick G. and Josie Camunes appeal the trial court's order granting Frontier Enterprises, Inc.'s motion for summary judgment. We affirm the trial court's judgment.
Factual and Procedural Background
Patrick...
Silvey v. Insurance Company of the State of Pennsylvania - 8/22/2001
AFFIRMED
Don G. Silvey appeals two evidentiary rulings of the trial court, alleging that the trial court erred in excluding such evidence and that such error was harmful. We affirm the trial court's judgment.
Background ...
Perkins v. Village - 8/21/2001
In this appeal, appellant Ramona J. Perkins (Perkins) challenges a take-nothing summary judgment in favor of appellee Missionary Baptist Foundation of America d/b/a Senior Village Nursing Home (Senior Village). In her sole issue, she...
Ball v. Youngblood - 8/21/2001
Justice Moseley
In one issue, appellant Barbara Ball ("Ball") asserts the trial court erred in granting a "no evidence" summary judgment in favor of her employer, appellee Alice M. Youngblood ("Youngblood"). We agree Bell...
Stephens v. Dallas Area Rapid Transit - 8/17/2001
Supplemental Opinion on Motion for Rehearing issued August 17, 2001
SUPPLEMENTAL OPINION ON MOTION FOR REHEARING
We have before us two separate motions: Appellee's Request for the Court to Take Judicial Notice and...
Manning v. Jenkins & Gilchrist - 8/16/2001
This appeal arises out of a legal malpractice suit brought by Stuart A. Manning against Jenkens & Gilchrist, P.C., David Laney, Robert Sheeder, and Brian Easley (collectively referred to as J&G; or individually as...
Insurance Company of the State of Pennsylvania v. Byrd - 8/16/2001
The Insurance Company of the State of Pennsylvania appeals from a final judgment in a worker's compensation case following a jury verdict in favor of Helaine Byrd. We affirm.
PROCEDURAL HISTORY
Helaine Byrd filed a...
Morris v. Paso Del Norte Health Foundation - 8/10/2001
This case involves the exclusive remedy provision of the workers' compensation act, and its applicability to Diana Morris, a nurse doing contract work for Paso del Norte Health Foundation d/b/a Providence Memorial Hospital. The trial...
Clark v. Commissioner of Education - 8/9/2001
This case arises out of an administrative appeal under Chapter 21 of the Texas Education Code. We affirm.
I. BACKGROUND
Appellant, Trev Clark was employed by the La Marque Independent School District ("La Marque ISD") as...
[W] Glass v. Amber - 8/9/2001
OPINION WITHDRAWN and new opinion filed October 31, 2002.
HARRY GLASS, III, APPELLANT v. AMBER, INC., APPELLEE
On Appeal from the 215th District Court Harris County, Texas Trial Court Cause No. 98-35367
Panel...
In re T.C.R. - 8/9/2001
The trial court rendered a default judgment against William Jeffrey Robinson in a Suit to Modify Parent-Child Relationship, brought by his former spouse, Tanya G. Snodgrass. While seeking an increase in child support, Snodgrass also...
Smith v. Nelson - 8/9/2001
ON MOTION FOR REHEARING
Publish
Pete Smith signed a contract with Zapata County Independent School District to serve as a high school football coach and athletic coordinator. Mid-year he was reassigned, without a change in...
Cantero v. Texas Workers ' Compensation Insurance Fund - 8/8/2001
PER CURIAM
DISMISSED FOR WANT OF PROSECUTION
On June 6, 2001, this court ordered appellant to file a brief in compliance with Texas Rule of Appellate Procedure 38.1 by July 5, 2001, or the appeal would be dismissed for want...
Cann v. Royal Indemnity Co. - 8/6/2001
Opinion by Chief Justice Valdez
Katheryn Cann appeals a summary judgment granted in favor of appellee Royal Indemnity Company ("Royal"). Royal, the workers' compensation carrier for Cann's employer, the Victoria Advocate (the...
Simmons Airlines v. Lagrotte - 8/3/2001
Simmons Airlines, Inc. ("Simmons") appeals the trial court's final judgment, following a jury trial, in favor of Michael Lagrotte. The jury found that Simmons acted with malice in terminating appellee for the sole reason that he...
Fortner v. Johnson - 6/29/2001
Hunt County MHMR Center Board of Directors Ralph Fortner, Dr. D. Arlington Talbot, June Jordan, William Smith, Jennifer Reeves, Dr. Robert F. Deuell, Beverly Griffin, Billie Erwin, Tom Brown in their official and individual...
Behr Southerland Construction - 6/29/2001
REVERSED AND REMANDED
This is an appeal of a default judgment rendered against appellants Behr Southerland Construction Co. and Troy D. Southerland in favor of appellee H.W. Wahlers, Inc. We are asked to decide if the trial court...
Williams v. Lara - 6/28/2001
On Petitions for Review from the Court of Appeals for the Second District of Texas
Argued on February 23, 2000
This case involves a dispute over a religious-education program in a Tarrant County jail facility. Our inquiry...
Guient v. Hogan & Associates - 6/28/2001
Donna Guient brought suit against her former employer, Hogan & Associates, Inc., and Walter Hogan (collectively "Hogan") alleging she was sexually harassed and wrongfully discharged from her employment with Hogan. The trial court...
Hall v. Diamond Shamrock Refining Co. - 6/27/2001
Dissenting opinion by: Paul W. Green, Justice
REVERSED AND REMANDED
This appeal arises from a survivor's cause of action for punitive damages. Appellant, Donna Hall ("Hall") appeals the trial court's judgment, which capped...
Liptak v. Thornhill - 6/27/2001
Virgil Liptak appeals the trial court's judgment and sanctions order in favor of appellees. In twenty-three issues, Liptak generally complains the trial judge (1) did not have jurisdiction over his lawsuit, (2) abused his discretion...
Rice v. Omnitrition International - 6/27/2001
Jody Bernard Rice was an Independent Marketing Associate (IMA) of Omnitrition International, Inc. (Omnitrition). Omnitrition terminated its distribution agreement with Rice on September 1, 1995 and filed a petition for a declaratory...
Alice Leasing Corp. v. Castillo - 6/27/2001
AFFIRMED
This is an appeal of a judgment entered in a wrongful death and survival action pursuant to a jury verdict. Appellant complains of the failure to submit a jury question on the deceased's status as a borrowed servant and...
McIntyre v. Wilson - 6/22/2001
Justice Roach
This appeal involves the third lawsuit filed by appellant Frank W. McIntyre over the dissolution of his business partnership with appellee Steve L. Sliman. McIntyre sued appellees Charles W. Wilson III, John...
Wilmer-Hutchins Independent School District v. Sullivan - 6/21/2001
On Petition for Review from the Court of Appeals for the Fifth District of Texas
The issue here is whether the trial court has jurisdiction over this suit for retaliatory discharge despite the plaintiff's failure to exhaust her...
Brown v. Todd - 6/21/2001
On Petitions for Review from the Court of Appeals for the Fourteenth District of Texas
Argued on October 2, 2000
Chief Justice Phillips delivered the opinion of the Court, joined by Justice Hecht, Justice Owen, Justice...
Dallas Independent School District v. Powell - 6/20/2001
William Ray Powell brought suit against the Dallas Independent School District (DISD) alleging DISD constructively terminated his employment in retaliation for filing a workers' compensation claim. DISD brings this interlocutory...
Stephens v. Dallas Area Rapid Transit - 6/15/2001
Curtis Stephens sued Dallas Area Rapid Transit (DART) for wrongful discharge under section 451.001 of the labor code, which prohibits retaliation against workers who file workers' compensation claims. See Tex. Lab. Code Ann. §...
Liberty Mutual Insurance Co. v. Montana - 6/14/2001
This suit arises from a workers' compensation award of supplemental income benefits and attorney's fees to appellee J.J. Montana. In a single point, appellant Liberty Mutual Insurance Company appeals the trial court's order granting...
Melendrez v. Tuesday Morning - 6/14/2001
Santa L. Melendrez sued Tuesday Morning, Inc. (Tuesday Morning), her former employer and a non-subscriber to the Texas Workers' Compensation Act, for carpal tunnel syndrome injuries sustained in the course of her employment....
Rush v. Barrios - 6/14/2001
This is an appeal from a dispute over legal fees between appellant, Warren D. Rush (individually and on behalf of the law firm Rush, Rush & Calogero) (Rush) and appellees, Melvin and Katharine Barrios, Aaron W. Guidry (an...
Leathwood v. Engage Energy US - 6/14/2001
Appellant, Brent Leathwood, filed suit against his former employer, Engage Energy US, L.P., appellee, because Engage terminated his employment. Leathwood asserted causes of action for breach of contract and fraud. After a jury...
In re Interest of Luna - 6/13/2001
AFFIRMED
"Although the Respondent's attorney has consistently attempted to turn this proceeding into an historical review of events since the landing by Cortez in 1530 and an expression of dissatisfaction with the party...
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