public harm is evident to Satterfield, who does not dispute the significance of the asbestos-litigation crisis to non-tortfeasor successor corporations or the potential effects of their bankruptcies on Texas jobs and state revenue. The Supreme Court has also made the connection between support of a business sector and prevention of public harm, holding that protection of the people’s vital interests is not limited to health, morals and safety, but extends to economic needs as well. Veix v. Sixth Ward Bldg. & Loan Ass’n, 310 U.S. 32, 38-39, 60 S.Ct. 792, 84 L.Ed. 1061 (1940) (upholding state statutes designed to protect solvency of building and loan associations as constitutional exercise of state’s police power); see also Brand v. Korth, 128 Tex. 488, 99 S.W.2d 285, 287 (1936) (<HOLDING>). Contrary to the majority’s declaration that
recognizing that exercise of legislative police power extends to safeguarding solvency of banks recognizing a distinction between the power of a federal court to hear statelaw claims and the discretionary exercise of that power holding legislatures intent to change tax liability retroactively was permissive exercise of legislative power holding that a commission is a body with special and limited power and it can only exercise the power expressly or impliedly granted to it and any reasonable doubt of existence of any power must be resolved against the exercise thereof recognizing that an exercise of the police power necessary to safeguard the public safety and welfare can justify impairment of contractual rights and obligations