The University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center v. Karen Jones 14-15-00266-CV (Tex. App. Houston [14th Dist.], January 21, 2016) This is a negligent use of tangible personal property case where the 14th District Court of Appeals held that dispensing prescribed
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Campbell-Ewald v. Gomez, 14-857 (January 20, 2016) The United States Supreme Court issued this opinion on derivative sovereign immunity for contractors. The United States Navy contracted with Campbell-Ewald Company (“Campbell”) to develop a multimedia recruiting campaign that included the sending of text
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City of Carrollton, Texas v. Milan Hamrla, Petra Chudejova, Michael and Laura Brewer, Dalia Chavarria, Diane and Gene Hines, and Keith Effert, 02-15-00119-CV (Tex. App. – Fort Worth, January 7, 2016). This is an interlocutory appeal from the denial of a plea
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The City of Beaumont v. Cody Garrett and Cherry Jones Gates, 09-15-00093-CV (Tex. App. – Beaumont, December 10, 2015). This is an interlocutory appeal from the denial of a plea to the jurisdiction in a Texas Tort Claims Act (“TTCA”) defective traffic
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The United Healthcare Choice Plus Plan for City of Austin Employees and The City of Austin v. Charles Lesniak, 03-15-00309-CV (Tex. App. – Austin, December 1, 2015) This is an interlocutory appeal from the denial of a plea to the jurisdiction which
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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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