A Texas Supreme Court ruling that changed Texans’ beach access rights elicited critical words—like “folly” and “absurd”—from two Houston appellate justices in a ruling Thursday.
Acknowledging that the 2012 precedent forced their hand in the decision, the justices begrudgingly affirmed the dismissal of a large group of Surfside Beach homeowners’ claims spanning from a 1998 hurricane that eroded the coastline so much that their properties became the public beach.
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