Harris County Municipal Utility District No. 156 v. United Somerset Corp.

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• holding that court has jurisdiction over subject-matter-jurisdiction challenges raised for first time in interlocutory appeal
• holding that when “the threatened controversy is not unavoidable,” declaratory judgment action not ripe for adjudication
• holding that because a threatened controversy was “not unavoidable,” the dispute was not ripe
• declaratory judgment action does not vest a court with the power to pass upon hypothetical or –26– contingent situations, or to determine questions not essential to the decision of an actual controversy, although such questions may in the future require adjudication

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