Texas Supreme Court rules against UT Regent Wallace Hall in records case
Wallace Hall’s final days as a University of Texas System regent are ending with a defeat in the Texas Supreme Court.
The court ruled Friday that Hall had no standing to sue the chancellor of the system he oversees. That likely brings an end to Hall’s last high-profile fight on the UT System board.
Hall had been seeking access to confidential student records. But Chancellor Bill McRaven had state authority to deny it, the court ruled. And since the state has immunity from most lawsuits filed in state court, Hall couldn’t sue, the court ruled.
Still, as Justice John Devine wrote in his opinion affirming McRaven’s victory, the court is “not unsympathetic to Hall’s plight.”
Read more: https://www.texastribune.org/2017/01/27/supreme-court-rules-against-ut-regent-wallace-hall/
