Wilmer-Hutchins Independent School District v. Sullivan

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• stating that exhaustion of administrative remedies is a prerequisite to trial court’s jurisdiction in case involving disputed facts
• stating that exhaustion of administrative remedies is a prerequisite to trial court's jurisdiction in case involving disputed facts
• holding school district could not waive jurisdictional challenge to retaliatory discharge suit despite plaintiff’s claim that school district attorney misled her by not informing her of mandatory administrative process
• noting that jurisdiction cannot be conferred by estoppel or action of party or agency and that school district’s failure to inform employee about administrative remedies did not absolve employee of exhaustion-of-remedies requirement
• reversing court of appeals = holding that a pleading claiming exhaustion of administrative remedies was conclusive, despite unchallenged evidence to the contrary, absent opponent = s allegation that the pleading was fraudulently made to confer jurisdiction
• plaintiff acknowledges that exhaustion of remedies is prerequisite to trial court’s jurisdiction “in a case like this involving disputed fact issues”

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