Supreme Court of Texas

When a claimant pursues a wage claim to a final adjudication before the Texas Workforce Commission, res judicata bars the claimant from later filing a lawsuit for the same damages in a Texas court of law.

Appellate Information

• Argued 01/25/2006
• Decided 12/07/2007
• Published 12/07/2007

Judges

• Justice WAINWRIGHT delivered the opinion of the Court as to Parts I, II, III, IVA, IVB2, and V, in which Justice GREEN, Justice JOHNSON, Justice WILLETT, and Justice McCOY * joined, and an opinion as to Part IVB1, in which Justice GREEN, Justice JOHNSON, and Justice WILLETT joined.

Court

• Supreme Court of Texas

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Charles W. Sartain, Looper Reed & McGraw, Dallas, Wade Caven Crosnoe, Thompson Coe Cousins & Irons, L.L.P., Austin, TX, for Petitioner., Amy Warr, Alexander Dubose Jones & Townsend, LLP, Rance L. Craft, Office of the Attorney General, Austin TX, for Amicus Curiae.


• For Appellees:
  
• Anne Marie Finch, Godwin Pappas Langley Ronquillo, LLP, Houston, TX, for Respondent.