COURT OF APPEALS
SECOND DISTRICT OF TEXAS
FORT WORTH
NO. 02-15-00338-CV
Town of Shady Shores § From the 442nd District Court
§ of Denton County (14-02914-158)
v.
§ January 18, 2018
Sarah Swanson § Opinion by Justice Pittman
JUDGMENT
This court has considered the record on appeal in this case and holds that
there was error in the trial court’s judgment. We affirm the trial court’s order
denying summary judgment for Appellant Town of Shady Shores (the Town) on
Appellee Sarah Swanson’s Uniform Declaratory Judgments Act (UDJA) claims
seeking: (1) a declaration that the Town’s termination of her employment was
void under the Texas Open Meetings Act; (2) injunctive relief relating to the
Town’s making agendas and meeting recordings for past and future Town
meetings available to the public; and (3) attorney’s fees for those claims. We
dismiss for lack of jurisdiction: (1) Swanson’s UDJA claims for back pay; (2) her
UDJA claims based on violations of her rights under article I, section 9 of the
Texas Constitution, seeking both reinstatement and declaratory relief; and (3) her
free speech claim.
It is further ordered that each party shall bear their own costs of this
appeal, for which let execution issue.
SECOND DISTRICT COURT OF APPEALS
By __/s/ Mark T. Pittman________________
Justice Mark T. Pittman