Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton (R) won’t have to sit for a deposition in a whistleblower lawsuit alleging he fired four employees because they made a criminal complaint against him to the FBI.
Paxton’s deposition, along with those of three of his senior aides, would shed no new light in the 2020 case after Paxton’s office opted to no longer dispute the claims earlier this year, the Texas Supreme Court said Friday.
“The only fact issue on which those witnesses are likely to provide information—OAG’s liability under the Whistleblower Act—is now uncontested,” the high court wrote in a per curiam ...
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