Texas Department of Transportation v. Ramirez

In this wrongful-death action, we decide whether the Texas Tort Claims Act waives sovereign immunity from suit for a premise-defect claim based on an allegedly dangerous highway median. Cecilia Ramirez alleged that the Texas Department of Transportation’s failure to correct or warn about a dangerous highway condition, which enabled a car to cross a highway median and collide with her husband’s car, caused her husband’s death. See Tex. Civ. Prac. & Rem.Code §§ 101.001-.109. TxDOT filed a plea to the jurisdiction, which the trial court denied. The court of appeals affirmed, concluding that…