(September 20, 2023, 2:57 PM EDT) -- AUSTIN, Texas — The retroactive provision of the Texas Pandemic Liability Protection Act (PLPA) “is unconstitutional as applied to” Southern Methodist University (SMU) in a putative class complaint over the school’s closure during the early days of the coronavirus pandemic, a student argues in an appellant brief filed in the Texas Supreme Court addressing a question certified by the Fifth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals....