Supreme Court of Texas

Texas Labor Code sections 403.007(a) and 408.184(c), and the Texas Workers- Compensation Committee regulations implementing these provisions, are not analogous to custodial-escheat statutes, but because the provisions, as applied to the petitioner, neither require Texas cities to make gratuitous payments to individuals, associations, or corporations, nor impose a statewide ad valorem tax, they do not violate article III, section 52(a), or article VIII, section 1-e of the Texas Constitution.

Appellate Information

• Decided 04/04/2002
• Published 04/04/2002

Judges

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

Court

• Supreme Court of Texas

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• William J. Cobb, Robbi B. Hull, Jim David Bickham, Vinson & Elkins, Jack W. Latson, Flahive, Ogden & Latson, Austin, for petitioner.


• For Appellees:
  
• John Cornyn, Attorney General of the State of Texas, Andy Taylor, First Assistant Attorney General, Joseph A. Pitner, Linda Eads, Don Walker, Office of the Attorney General of Texas, Austin, for respondent.