Last week, the Texas Supreme Court agreed to hear arguments in an unusual rehearing of a ruling that lawmakers and other groups say was “flat-out” wrong. The case involved contract employees covered by workers’ compensation, and whether they should be allowed to seek damages against work site owners for on-the-job injuries. The decision has been protested by a bipartisan group of lawmakers, labor groups, and accident victims, who maintain that the justices erred in the original hearing when they granted extended immunity provisions that were never part of legislative intent.
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