Legal Opinion
Reata Construction Corp. v. City of Dallas
Texas Supreme Court
Decided June 30, 2006No. 02-1031PublishedCited by 664 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Johnson
in which Chief Justice JEFFERSON, Justice WAINWRIGHT, Justice MEDINA, and Justice GREEN joined.
We grant the City of Dallas’s motion for rehearing. We withdraw our opinion of April 2, 2004, and substitute the following in its place.
The issue in this case is whether the City of Dallas has governmental immunity from suit for claims by Reata Construction Corporation arising from the City’s alleged negligence. The court of appeals held that the City had immunity. We conclude that the City does not have immunity from suit as to Reata’s claims which are germane to, connected with, and properly…
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