The trial court of subject-matter jurisdiction. TCAD's grievance policy and therefore had failed to exhaust her administrative remedies, depriving TCAD filed a plea to the jurisdiction, arguing that Norman had not complied with §§ 451.001-.003, which provides that a person may not be discharged for filing a workers' compensation claim Norman filed suit for retaliatoryĭischarge under the Texas Anti-Retaliation Act (the "Act"), see Tex. That she had been terminated based on her work performance. June 15, 2006, she filed a workers' compensation claim later that day, she received written notice § 6.01(c) (West 2008), as a probationary employee in January of 2006.
Norman was hired by TCAD, a political subdivision of the State of Texas, see Jurisdiction on the trial court, we affirm the district court's order denying TCAD's plea Norman was not required to utilize TCAD's grievance procedures in order to confer subject-matter TCAD's grievance process deprived the court of subject-matter jurisdiction. That the district court erred in denying its plea to the jurisdiction because Norman's failure to exhaust To the jurisdiction, arguing that Norman had not exhausted her administrative remedies because sheĭid not file any grievance with TCAD before filing suit. ("TCAD") for retaliatory discharge, alleging that she was fired by TCAD for filing a workers'Ĭompensation claim. TRIANA, JUDGE PRESIDINGĭiane Lee Norman brought suit against the Travis Central Appraisal District Travis Central Appraisal District, AppellantįROM THE DISTRICT COURT OF TRAVIS COUNTY, 200TH JUDICIAL DISTRICT This is useful information if you are considering buying a house or a commercial property in Austin Tx and want to know who the current owner is as well as the previous owners, the legal description of the property, the property assessed values, and the taxing jurisdiction and tax rate.TEXAS COURT OF APPEALS, THIRD DISTRICT, AT AUSTIN Once you found the property you are looking for now you can see all the important details about it such as property tax records, assessed value, etc. If you decided to click on the advanced search button you will have the following property search options: If you don't get any results after using the whole street name then just enter the first few letters or numbers of the street name then sort through the addresses. Using ONLY the street name will give you the best results. St., Dr., etc) or directional prefixes (e.g. You have the option of entering one or more search terms in the blank field OR you can click on the advanced button to see more search options.įor best results when doing address searches do NOT use suffixes (e.g. Once you are on the site click on the blue property search button and it will take you to a searchable database of every property in Travis County.