# Director of the Department of Agriculture & Environment v. Printing Industries Ass'n of Texas

> Texas Supreme Court · June 4, 1980 · 23 Tex. Sup. Ct. J. 397

URL: https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/cases/9683782

## Case

- **Full name:** DIRECTOR OF the DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE AND ENVIRONMENT Et Al., Petitioners, v. PRINTING INDUSTRIES ASSOCIATION OF TEXAS Et Al., Respondents
- **Court:** Texas Supreme Court
- **Decided:** June 4, 1980
- **Citations:** 23 Tex. Sup. Ct. J. 397; 600 S.W.2d 264; 1980 Tex. LEXIS 343
- **Precedential status:** Published
- **Opinion:** Concurrence by Garwood
- **Judges:** Denton, Pope, Garwood, Greenhill
- **Cited by:** 210 later opinions in the Frix Law Library

## Citator (automated)

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## How later opinions describe it (automated extraction)

- stating that legislative consent was not required for suit for injunctive relief against a state agency to halt unauthorized printing equipment and printing activities
- stating that article XVI, section 21 of Texas Constitution “does not prohibit the State fi-om performing its own printing needs”
- stating that article XVI, section 21 of Texas Constitution "does not prohibit the State from performing its own printing needs"
- holding legislative consent is not required for suit for injunctive relief against state agency to halt unauthorized printing equipment and printing activities

## Opinion text

GARWOOD, Justice,
concurring.
I concur because in my opinion when Article XVI, Section 21 was readopted with amendments in 1978, it was not intended to thereby prohibit the State from continuing its known and unchallenged practice, then of many decades duration, of doing much of its own printing.
GREENHILL, C. J., joins in this concurring opinion.

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