Mealey's (February 6, 2017, 1:51 PM EST) -- AUSTIN, Texas — A governmental body’s failure to comply with certain deadlines in response to Texas Public Information Act (PIA) document requests does not waive the attorney-client privilege in protected documents, a Texas Supreme Court majority ruled Feb. 3, finding that the privilege constituted a “compelling reason” to maintain such documents’ confidentiality despite the statute’s public disclosure presumption that arises after deadline noncompliance (Ken Paxton, Attorney General of Texas v. City of Dallas, No. 15-0073 and 15-0238, Texas Sup., 2017 Tex. LEXIS 122)....