On Friday, the Texas Supreme Court ruled that a whistleblower lawsuit against Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton could return to trial in Travis County District Court. This comes days after four former top deputies of the attorney general’s office, Blake Brickman, Ryan Vassar, Mark Penley and David Maxwell, filed a...
Blake Brickman, who served as the former deputy attorney general for policy and strategy under Paxton, is the lead plaintiff on the case.On Friday, the Texas Supreme Court ruled that a whistleblower lawsuit against Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton could return to trial in Travis County District Court.
The case, filed in 2020, was paused after a settlement was initially reached. However, the whistleblowers argued for it to be sent back to the court’s active docket after the Texas Legislature failed to approve funding that would have paid $3.3 million to Brickman, Vassar, Penley and Maxwell. Brickman, the former deputy attorney general for policy and strategy under Paxton, said in a press conference earlier this week that the Texas House could still allow the settlement.
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