City of Waco v. Williams

BILL VANCE, Justice.

In this interlocutory appeal of the trial court’s denial of the city’s plea to the *219jurisdiction, we must decide if the Texas Tort Claims Act’s intentional-tort exception to its waiver of sovereign immunity applies when police officers shoot a person with Tasers.1 We hold that the plaintiffs’ claims allege an intentional tort2 and that immunity has not been waived. We will reverse the trial court’s ruling and dismiss the case against the city for want of subject-matter jurisdiction.

Background

The plaintiffs, the children of Robert Earl Williams, Sr., the decedent, sued the…