Karen Hall v. City of Bryan, 10-16-00044-CV (Tex. App. –- Waco, January 3, 2018) This is a disannexation lawsuit where the Waco Court of Appeals affirmed the trial court’s summary judgment motion dismissing the Plaintiff’s claims for disannexation. This is the third
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Rodney D. Bailey v. Dallas County, et al., 05-16-00789-CV (Tex. App. – Dallas, December 21, 2017) This is a county civil service case where the Dallas Court of Appeals affirmed-in-part and reversed-in-part the County Defendants’ plea to the jurisdiction filed in a
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Joshua Luttrell, et al v. El Paso County, et al., 08-16-00090-CV (Tex. App. – El Paso, December 20, 2017). There is no way to categorize this case in a single sentence. In the thirty-nine page opinion, the El Paso Court of Appeals
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Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport Board v. Vizant Technologies, LLC Formerly known as P.E. Systems, LLC (Tex. App— Dallas, December 15, 2017) This is a contractual immunity case where the Dallas Court of Appeals affirmed-in-part and denied-in-part the Airport Board’s plea to the
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Christopher Leron Clegg v. City of Fort Worth 02-17-00040-CV (Tex.App – Fort Worth, December 14, 2017) This is a Texas Tort Claims Act (“TTCA”) vehicle accident case where the Fort Worth Court of Appeals affirmed the granting of the City’s plea
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University of Texas Health Science Center of Houston v Rios, 16-0836 (Tex. December 15, 2017) This is a Texas Tort Claims Act (“TTCA”) case involving §101.106(e) where the Plaintiff sued both the entity and employees. The Texas Supreme Court held the employee’s
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Texas State University v. Dr. Kathleen Quinn 03-16-00548-CV (Tex.App—— Austin, Texas November 29,2017) This is an interlocutory appeal from the denial of a plea to the jurisdiction in an employment-discrimination dispute where the Austin Court of Appeals affirmed the denial. Quinn
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Hamer v Neighborhood Housing Services of Chicago, et al, No. 16-658, Slip. Op., 2017 WL 5160782 — U.S.–, (November 8, 2017). This is an employment dispute, but the key point before the U.S. Supreme Court was the jurisdictional aspects of the timing
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City of San Antonio v. Patrick Torres and Johnnie Dears 04-17-00309-CV (Tex.app —— San Antonio, Texas November 15, 2017) This is a Texas Tort Claims Act (“TTCA”) case involving a vehicle accident where the San Antonio Court of Appeals affirmed the denying
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The University of Texas – MD Anderson Cancer Center v. April Porter 14-17-00107-CV (Tex.app—- Houston, Texas November 2, 2017) In this case, the 14th Court of Appeals reversed the denial order and allowed MD Anderson to utilize a Rule 91a motion to
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