Supreme Court of Texas

Under the Texas Seed Arbitration Act, which requires that certain defective-seed claims be submitted to arbitration as a prerequisite to maintaining a legal action against the labeler, the timeliness requirement for submitting claims to arbitration is not jurisdictional.

Appellate Information

• Argued 02/07/2001
• Decided 04/26/2001
• Published 04/26/2001

Judges

• Justice BAKER delivered the opinion of the Court, in which Chief Justice PHILLIPS, Justice ENOCH, Justice HANKINSON, Justice O'NEILL, and Justice JEFFERSON joined.

Court

• Supreme Court of Texas

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Charles C. Murray,Lisa Powell, Atlas & Hall, McAllen, for Petitioners.


• For Appellees:
  
• John B. Skaggs, Skaggs & Garza, Michele Nicole Gonzales, McAllen, for Respondents.