SDM’s Casey Dobson, Jane Webre and Mike Merriman successfully defended the Central Texas Regional Mobility Authority (CTRMA) against an emergency motion for injunction pending appeal brought by a group of plaintiffs attempting to stop construction on State Highway 45 Southwest.  After the district court denied plaintiffs’ application for preliminary injunction in October 2016, the plaintiffs appealed and filed the emergency injunction motion with the Fifth Circuit.  The Fifth Circuit heard oral argument in Austin on the injunction application on November 4, then denied the motion just hours after argument.  The order allowed CTRMA to start construction on State Highway 45 Southwest immediately.  For more details on this dispute, see SDM’s October 24, 2016 news release.

The appeal is Fath, et al., v. Texas Department of Transportation and Central Texas Regional Mobility Authority, No. 16-51281 (5th Cir.).