Texas Supreme Court Rejects Constitutional Challenge to Fifteenth Court of Appeals

With about a week to go before the state’s new Fifteenth Court of Appeals goes live, the Texas Supreme Court issued a ruling Friday morning, unanimously rejecting a constitutional challenge to the creation of the court.

The ruling comes in a case filed by Dallas County in May. The county had asked the state’s high court to declare the newly-created court unconstitutional in a bid to prevent its lawsuit against the Texas Health and Human Services Commission — currently pending with the Austin Court of Appeals — from being transferred Sept. 1 when the new court goes live.