context: We have concluded # that sovereign immunity bars Machete's- UDJA claims seeking to invalidate the Commission's denial of the Program grant, and there is no other right to judicial review of the Commission's decision. Machete's section 2001.038 claim for declaratory judgment is therefore moot.
citation_a.signal: see also
citation_a.identifier: 241 S.W.3d 123, 123-24
citation_a.parenthetical: because relief provided under section 2001.038 does not extend to invalidating agency decision, but only rules by which proceedings were conducted, challenge to validity of those rules would amount to mere abstract, advisory opinion
citation_a.sentence: See Bacon, 411 S.W.3d at 181 (“Further, absent a right of judicial review from the THC proceedings or other claim to challenge them that is within the district court’s jurisdiction, Bacon’s section 2001.038 claim for .declaratory relief is moot.”); Creedmoor-Maha Water Supply, 307 S.W.3d at 526 n. 16 (agency’s final, unappealable order rendered section 2001.038 rule challenge moot); see also Texas Logos, 241 S.W.3d at 123-24 (because relief provided under section 2001.038 does not extend to invalidating agency decision, but only rules by which proceedings were conducted, challenge to validity of those rules would amount to mere abstract, advisory opinion).
citation_b.signal: see
citation_b.parenthetical: agency's final, unappealable order rendered section 2001.038 rule challenge moot
citation_b.sentence: See Bacon, 411 S.W.3d at 181 (“Further, absent a right of judicial review from the THC proceedings or other claim to challenge them that is within the district court’s jurisdiction, Bacon’s section 2001.038 claim for .declaratory relief is moot.”); Creedmoor-Maha Water Supply, 307 S.W.3d at 526 n. 16 (agency’s final, unappealable order rendered section 2001.038 rule challenge moot); see also Texas Logos, 241 S.W.3d at 123-24 (because relief provided under section 2001.038 does not extend to invalidating agency decision, but only rules by which proceedings were conducted, challenge to validity of those rules would amount to mere abstract, advisory opinion).