Board of Councilmen v. Gordon

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• “[I]t is a cardinal rule in Texas that a court construes a statute, ‘first by looking to the plain and common meaning of the statute's words.’”
• “The final outcome of [appeal in a related case] will likely streamline issues for dispositive motions and bellwether trials in this case. The risk of duplicative litigation is too great for this Court to ignore.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).