Texas Department of Human Services v. Okoli

OPINION

TERRY JENNINGS, Justice.

In this interlocutory appeal, 1 appellant, the Texas Department of Human Services (“TDHS”), challenges the trial court’s order denying its plea to jurisdiction filed in the underlying Texas Whistleblower Act 2 lawsuit brought against it by appellee, Oliver E. Okoli. In three issues, TDHS contends that Okoli did not, as required by the Whistleblower Act, report a violation of law to an appropriate law enforcement authority or present sufficient evidence to invoke the limited waiver of sovereign immunity provided by the Whistleblower Act and his fraud and malice…