Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton surrendered in a multi-million dollar civil lawsuit filed by whistleblowers, 24 days after a controversial acquittal.
AUSTIN, Texas - Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton won't testify under oath in a lawsuit filed by former office employees turned whistleblowers, the state's Supreme Court said Friday.
The court on Friday granted Paxton's request for a writ of mandamus, an order that would require a trial court to vacate its order that would have forced Paxton and three top employees – Brent Webster, Lesley French Henneke and Michelle Smith – to testify under oath in a lawsuit claiming the whistleblowers were fired in retaliation for reporting Paxton to the FBI.
Paxton agreed not to contest the lawsuit and the court determined that with the office's liability no longer contested, the depositions were unnecessary.
"While we agree with the former employees that OAG's concessions do not preclude all discovery, we agree with OAG that the trial court abused its discretion in ordering the depositions of these four witnesses without considering that the only fact...
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