Dec. 23, 2022, 5:54 PM
A Texas man can’t sue his lawyer for allegedly advising his employer to fire him for an accident he’d caused when driving a company truck, a state appeals court said, because the cause of his dismissal had already been decided in a federal suit.
The doctrine of collateral estoppel blocked plaintiff Kenneth Henry’s lawsuit, the Texas Court of Appeals, Fifth District said in a ruling Thursday upholding a trial court decision.
The US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit had already determined that the actual reason for Henry’s termination by Time Warner Cable was the good faith belief that …