Legal Opinion
City of Houston v. Williams
Texas Court of Appeals, 14th District (Houston)
Decided July 30, 2009No. 14-08-00059-CVPublishedCited by 9 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
CHARLES W. SEYMORE, Justice.
This interlocutory appeal from denial of the City of Houston’s plea to the jurisdiction requires us to construe sections of the Texas Local Government Code providing for waiver of governmental immunity relative to breach-of-contract suits against local government entities. The appeal involves a suit brought by appellees, a group of former Houston firefighters (“the firefighters”), against appellant, the City of Houston (“the City”). 1 The case is before this court for the second time.
In a partial judgment rendered in 2004, the trial court denied the City’s…
2Cases cited30 opinions
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3Cited by9 opinions
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