First-Citizens Bank & Trust Co. v. Greater Austin Area Telecommunications Network

OPINION

J. WOODFIN JONES, Chief Justice.

Appellant First-Citizens Bank & Trust Company (the “Bank”), a putative assignee of a contractor’s accounts receivable, sued appellees Greater Austin Area Telecommunications Network, an interlocal administrative agency, and Austin Independent School District (collectively the “government defendants”) for breach of contract. The government defendants filed a plea to the jurisdiction, asserting that sovereign immunity barred the Bank’s suit. The judge who conducted an evidentiary hearing on the plea died before ruling on the matter; a different judge later…