Ransom v. Center for Health Care Services

OPINION ON APPELLEE’S MOTION FOR REHEARING EN BANC

Opinion by:

KAREN ANGELINI, Justice.

Our opinion and judgment of February 24, 1999, are withdrawn, and the following opinion and judgment are substituted. Appellee’s motion for rehearing en banc is granted.

James Ransom (“Ransom”) appeals from a summary judgment granted in favor of the Center for Health Care Services, a Bexar County agency, (“The Center”). The Center moved for summary judgment based on sovereign immunity and sole proximate cause. We affirm.

Background Facts

Ransom, who is mentally retarded, lives in a group home. The Center had…