The City of Houston v. Kelley Street Associates, LLC, 14-14-00818-CV (Tex. App. – Houston [14th Dist.], November 30, 2015). This is an interlocutory appeal from the denial of a plea to the jurisdiction in a Texas Tort Claims Act (“TTCA”) case in
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Board of Regents, Texas State University System, and Texas State University-San Marcos v. Stephanie Paige Steinbach, 03-14-00326-CV (Tex. App. – Austin, November 24, 2015) This is an interlocutory appeal in a Texas Tort Claims Act (“TTCA”) slip and fall case were the
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Nikki Sides individually and on behalf of the estate of Thomas Middleton v. Texas Department of Criminal Justice, 01-15-00004-CV (Tex. App. – Houston [1st Dist.] November 3, 2015). This is a Texas Tort Claims Act (“TTCA”)–inmate suicide case in which the First
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Texas Municipal League Joint Self-Insurance Fund, and the The Texas Municipal League Intergovernmental Risk Pool v Housing Authority of the City of Alice, 04-15-00069-CV (Tex. App.—San Antonio, October 14, 2015). The Housing Authority is a member of a joint self-insurance pool
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Joyce Janette Riddle v. City of Abilene 11-14-00146-CV (Tex. App. – Eastland, October 1, 2015) This is a premise defect/Texas Tort Claims Act (“TTCA”) case where the Eastland Court of Appeals affirmed the granting of a plea to the jurisdiction for the
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Sidney B. Hale, Jr. v. City of Bonham, 06-15-00021-CV (Tex. App. – Texarkana, September 23, 2015) This is a lease/premise liability case where the Texarkana Court of Appeals dismissed the plaintiffs’ claims as the City was immune from suit. Hale rented an
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Texas Supreme Court holds the recreational use statute does not apply to egress from a baseball game
LOUIE LAWSON, REPRESENTATIVE OF THE ESTATE OF CAROLYN BURNS v. CITY OF DIBOLL, 15-0037 (Tex. September 18, 2015) This is a recreation use statute case where the Texas Supreme Court reversed the granting of a plea to the jurisdiction and remanded back
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City of Bastrop v. Chyanne M. Bryant, 03-14-00591-CV (Tex. App. – Austin, August 27, 2015). This is an interlocutory appeal in a Recreational Use case where the City appealed the denial of a plea to the jurisdiction. The Austin Court of Appeals
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TXU Energy Retail Company L.L.C. v. Fort Bend Independent School District, 05-14-01515-CV (Tex. App. – Dallas, August 25, 2015). This is a sovereign immunity in contract case where the Fifth District Court of Appeals affirmed the granting of FBISD’s plea to the
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Canario’s, Inc. v. City of Austin, 03-14-00455-CV (Tex. App. – Austin, August 26, 2015). Canario’s, as developer of a project to construct a nightclub, deposited with the City over $100,000 to be held as fiscal security to ensure proper completion of the
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