The Texas Real Estate Commission (TREC) sought to revoke our Client’s real estate sales agent license, for a single non-violent felony, with substantial mitigating circumstances and evidence. Through compelling presentation of arguments at a final SOAH Hearing, the Firm persuaded an Administrative Law Judge (ALJ) to issue a proposal for decision (PFD), which contemplated permitting our Client to retain his license subject to probation for ten years. TREC improperly altered the PFD, so that it revoked instead of probating our Client’s license. We presented a robust accounting of why what TREC did was a violation, and convinced a District Judge to restore our Client’s license pursuant to a Temporary Injunction.
Take-away: We won our Client’s license back through pendency of appeal to District Court, and thereby enabled him to earn a living and be with his children.