Acker v. Texas Water Commission

How courts have described this case

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• holding that habit or custom of a person doing a particular act is relevant in determining his conduct on a particular occasion
• assuming that the legislature is aware of preexisting judicial opinions in a particular area when legislating in that area
• stating that under TOMA, citizens “are entitled not only to know what government decides but to observe how and why every decision is reached”
• noting that the Legislature is presumed to have enacted a statute with complete knowledge of the existing law and with reference to it
• holding officials cannot be allowed to meet and deliberate privately about contested proceedings without eviscerating TOMA
• noting that statutory repeals by implication are not favored, and legislative enactments covering subject dealt with by older law, but not repealing it, should be harmonized whenever possible so as to give effect to both

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).