University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas v. Gentilello

OPINION

Opinion by

Justice O’NEILL.

In this interlocutory appeal, the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas appeals an order denying its plea to the jurisdiction. In three issues, UT Southwestern generally contends (1) the trial court should have granted its plea to the jurisdiction based on sovereign immunity because appellee Larry M. Gentilello, M.D., did not allege a claim within the waiver provisions of the Whistleblower Act, and (2) the trial court should have sua sponte dismissed Gentilello’s claim because Gentilello judicially admitted a fact establishing he could not…