Supreme Court of Texas

Under the Texas Whistleblower Act (Act), the Texas Department of Transportation (TDOT) is not an appropriate authority to which a public employee may report an alleged driving while intoxicated incident, and where a public employee did not have a good faith belief that the TDOT was such an authority, his claim for adverse employment action under the Act was dismissed.

Appellate Information

• Argued 04/10/2002
• Decided 05/09/2002
• Published 05/09/2002

Judges

• Justice BAKER delivered the opinion of the Court.

Court

• Supreme Court of Texas

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Julie Caruthers Parsley,Office of Solicitor Gen. of Texas, John Cornyn, Jeffrey S. Boyd, Philip A. Lionberger, Katherine E. Kasten, Cavitt Wendlandt, Danica Lynn Milios, Office of Attys Gen. of Texas, Howard G. Baldwin, First Asst. Atty. Gen., Austin, for petitioner.


• For Appellees:
  
• John Judge, Judge & Brim, Mark W. Robinett, Jefferson K. Brim, III, Brim Arnette & Robinett, Austin, for respondent.