In this interlocutory appeal, the City of Houston appeals from the trial court’s order denying its plea to the jurisdiction on the negligence claims of appellee, Luis Crespo Amazquita.1 We affirm.

BACKGROUND

Appellee simultaneously sued the City, the Houston Police Department, and employee, Ryan Nolen, Jr., alleging that Nolen, a Houston police officer, was driving a vehicle ow

This case involves a claim brought under the Texas Whistleblower Act. The trial court granted the Dallas Independent School District's plea to the jurisdiction and dismissed James Mullins's claim. In a single issue, Mullins contends the trial court erred in granting the plea because he presented sufficient evidence to raise a question of fact about the trial court's jurisdiction over his claim. We

In this accelerated appeal from an order granting a plea to the jurisdiction, Antonio Labrado, Jr. d/b/a Sunset Enterprises (collectively Sunset) asserts that The University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP), a governmental entity, waived its sovereign immunity from suit. Sunset asserts that UTEP waived its immunity expressly through contract language or by its conduct by accepting the benefits of the co

John Giordano (“Giordano”) operates G&G Addiction Treatment, Inc. (“G&G”), a Florida corporation which offers addiction treatment services. In July 2009, a disgruntled recipient of G&G’s services went online and posted false and defamatory claims about G&G, identifying Giordano as a convicted felon and claiming, among other things, that the employees of G&G illegally disburse medications

The appellants, Pensacola Christian College (PCC) and Robert Maddox, appeal a non-final order in favor of the appellee, Joyanne Bruhn, upon a finding that PCC and Maddox were not entitled to worker’s compensation immunity as a matter of law. Because the trial court erred in determining that PCC was not Bruhn’s employer and that her injury was not sustained in the course and scope of employment

This is an interlocutory appeal from the denial of Texas Parks and Wildlife Department’s (“TPWD”) motion to dismiss Teodora Villarreal’s lawsuit pursuant to section 101.106(b) of the Texas Civil Practices and Remedies Code. We affirm the trial court’s order.

BACKGROUND

This case arises out of a car accident involving Villarreal and Don Hudson, an employee of TPWD. Villarrea

On February 14, 2006, six police officers from the Garland, Texas police department breached the locked door to the private bedroom of Richard and Cindy Rockwell’s 27-year-old son, Scott, to arrest him for threatening his mother. Scott attacked the officers with two knives, and in the ensuing melee, the officers shot and killed him. The Rockwells sued the officers for excessive force, assault an

Appellant Kenneth Becker appeals the trial court's order sustaining appellee Carla Hahn Clardy's plea to the jurisdiction. In his petition, Becker sought damages based upon common law claims of libel and slander against Clardy. Clardy responded in her plea that the trial court did not have subject matter jurisdiction over Becker's claims because they fell within the ecclesiastical abstention doctr

Quality Infusion Care, Inc. seeks reversal of the trial court’s summary judgment in favor of appellees Health Care Service Corporation d/b/a Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Texas, Howard King, and Hill & Finkel, L.L.P. in Quality’s suit against them for tortious interference with contract, negligence per se, and business disparagement. In two issues, Quality contends that (1) there is no eviden

The City of Houston, appeals the trial court’s interlocutory order denying its plea to the jurisdiction.[1] In its sole issue, the City contends that the trial court erred in denying its plea because it has immunity pursuant to subsection (b) of the election-of-remedies provision of the Texas Tort Claims Act.[2]

We affirm.

Background

Jessica Gunn was driving a c

The City of Houston appeals the trial court’s interlocutory order denying its plea to the jurisdiction.[1] In its sole issue, the City contends that the trial court erred in denying its plea because it has immunity pursuant to subsection (b) of the election-of-remedies provision of the Texas Tort Claims Act.[2]

We affirm.

Background

On September 11, 2009, Jessic

This case is one of many arising from claims that the federal government, with the assistance of major telecommunications companies, engaged in widespread warrantless eavesdropping in the United States following the September 11, 2001, attacks. At issue in this appeal is whether Carolyn Jewel and other residential telephone customers (collectively “Jewel”) have standing to bring their statutor

These consolidated appeals arise from claims that major telecommunications carriers assisted the government with intelligence gathering following the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001. News reports that the National Security Agency (“NSA”) undertook a warrantless eavesdropping program with alleged cooperation by telecommunications companies spawned dozens of lawsuits by customers against

Teresa Wagner appeals the district court’s grant of summary judgment dismissing her 42 U.S.C. § 1983 suit against Carolyn Jones, who was then the Dean of the University of Iowa’s College of Law. Wagner alleges that Dean Jones discriminated against her in violation of her First Amendment rights of political belief and association when Wagner was not hired to be a full-time Legal Analysis, Writ

Teresa Wagner appeals the district court’s grant of summary judgment dismissing her 42 U.S.C. § 1983 suit against Carolyn Jones, who was then the Dean of the University of Iowa’s College of Law. Wagner alleges that Dean Jones discriminated against her in violation of her First Amendment rights of political belief and association when Wagner was not hired to be a full-time Legal Analysis, Wri

This case presents the issue of whether the holder of a judgment obtained against a school district's former bus driver is entitled to collect that judgment from the State Legal Expense Fund, established by section 105.711 RSMo.1

Factual Background

In the fall of 2006, Robert Griffith, a school bus driver for the Doniphan R-I School District, molested a four-year-old preschool girl (

Eighteen-year-old Lukus Glenn was shot and killed in his driveway by Washington County police officers. His mother had called 911 for help with her distraught and intoxicated son after Lukus began threatening to kill himself with a pocketknife and breaking household property. Within four minutes of their arrival, officers had shot Lukus with a “less-lethal” beanbag shotgun, and had fatally sho

Mr. Richard Kreutz, Sr., and Mrs. Susan Kreutz appeal the dismissal of their petition seeking damages for the wrongful death of their son, Mr. Richard Kreutz, Jr. The trial court dismissed the Kreutzes‟ petition because the health care affidavits required to be filed with the petition by section 538.225 failed to comply with the statute in that the doctor opining that the defendant health care p

June Nguyen and Bob Haynes (“the Plaintiffs”) appeal from the Circuit Court of Jackson County’s dismissal of Dr. Chris Small, Theresa Nelson, Keri Peterson, Ryan Evans, Francie Aumua, Robin Wagoner, and Denise Beach from a wrongful death action filed by Plaintiffs related to the death of their eleven-year-old daughter, Sabrina Nguyen, resulting from a head injury Sabrina sustained at school.

In this interlocutory appeal, the City of Houston appeals from the trial court’s order denying its plea to the jurisdiction on the negligence claims of appellees, Cesar I. Uribe-Mendoza and Ivonne Aguilar-Angeles. We affirm.

BACKGROUND

Appellees simultaneously sued the City and its employee, Lisa Kimball, who was driving a city-owned vehicle, for negligence in causing a collision w

In this appeal, appellants Cedric Authorlee and Kenneth Patterson appeal from the trial court’s order granting the plea to the jurisdiction filed by appellee Metropolitan Transit Authority of Harris County (Metro). We reverse and remand.

BACKGROUND

Appellants simultaneously sued Metro and its employee, Steve Johnson, who was driving a Metro-owned bus, which collided with a vehicle

In this interlocutory appeal, the City of Houston appeals from the trial court’s order denying its plea to the jurisdiction on the negligence claims of appellee, Antoinette Washington. We affirm.

BACKGROUND

Washington simultaneously sued the City and its employee, Adelfred Grove, who was driving a city-owned vehicle, for negligence in causing a collision with a vehicle occupied

The appellees (“Rosenbaums”) sued the City of San Antonio for damages arising from the tragic death of Diane Rosenbaum caused when her motorized wheelchair became lodged under a brush truck driven by San Antonio Firefighter David Johnson. The brush truck was temporarily parked in a bank parking lot and struck Rosenbaum as it proceeded through the parking lot and onto the street. The City of S

In three points, pro se Appellant Darren Bradley Swain appeals from the trial court’s grant of motions to dismiss for want of jurisdiction filed by Appellees Arlington Municipal Court Judges Stewart Milner and Rosalia Maddock and Arlington Municipal Court Clerk Norma Williams (the judicial employees); Arlington Police Corporal Jason Hutson, Officer Dora DeWall,[2] Sergeant Daniel Henning, and Ci

Appellant the City of Fort Worth brings this interlocutory appeal from the trial court’s order denying in part its plea to the jurisdiction on the whistleblower claim filed by Appellee Janet Anne Lane. In one issue, Fort Worth argues that Lane did not establish a waiver of immunity under the Texas Whistleblower Act because she did not make a good faith report of a violation of law. Because we