Legal Opinion
University of Texas at Austin v. Hayes
Texas Court of Appeals, 3rd District (Austin)
Decided March 6, 2009No. 03-06-00581-CVPublishedCited by 3 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
J. WOODFIN JONES, Chief Justice.
The University of Texas at Austin (the “University”) appeals the county court at law’s order denying its plea to the jurisdiction. See Tex. Civ. Prac. & Rem.Code Ann. § 51.014(a)(8) (West 2008). The University asserts that sovereign immunity bars the negligence claims brought by the ap-pellee, Robert Hayes. Hayes sued the University for injuries he sustained when he rode his bicycle onto campus at night *882and collided with a metal chain stretched across the throughway on which he was traveling.1 He alleged both a premises defect and a special defect under…
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