Texas Department of Public Safety v. Salazar

How courts have described this case

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• observing that “there is no general right to sue a state agency for a declaration of rights” in light of limited scope of UDJA’s immunity waiver
• declining to address ultra vires jurisdiction because it would “decide disputes regarding [the state actors’] statutory authority that also underlie [plaintiffs’] section 2001.038 rule challenge and comprise the merits of that claim.”
• “[a]gency statements that ‘have no effect on private persons’ are not considered rules”
• where plaintiffs asserted valid APA rulemaking challenge under Section 2001.038, court need not determine whether plaintiffs properly alleged ultra vires claims because trial court’s subject-matter jurisdiction was established by APA rulemaking challenge
• \[a]gency statements that 'have no effect on private persons' are not considered rules\
• “[a]gency statements that ‘have no effect on private persons’ are not considered rules”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).