Supreme Court of Texas

In an action claiming that plaintiff's former employer-university breached her contract and forced her to resign from her tenured faculty position by reassigning her responsibilities to others and effectively demoting her, a court of appeals' ruling in favor of plaintiff is reversed where plaintiff presented no evidence the university breached her contract and the jury was properly charged on constructive discharge.

Appellate Information

• Argued 10/19/2005
• Decided 04/20/2007
• Published 04/20/2007

Judges

• Justice HECHT delivered the opinion of the Court, in which Chief Justice JEFFERSON, Justice O'NEILL, Justice BRISTER, Justice MEDINA, Justice GREEN, and Justice WILLETT joined.

Court

• Supreme Court of Texas

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Roy L. Barrett, Stuart Smith, and John Andrew Powell, Naman, Howell, Smith & Lee, L.L.P., Waco, for Petitioner.


• For Appellees:
  
• LaNelle L. McNamara, LaNelle L. McNamara, P.C., Waco, for Respondent.