Jones v. Texas Department of Criminal Justice—Institutional Division

OPINION

FELIPE REYNA, Justice.

Christopher Jones brings this interlocutory appeal from the granting of a motion to dismiss filed by the Texas Department of Criminal Justice and a plea to the jurisdiction filed by TDCJ and four TDCJ employees. He contends in five issues that: (1) the court abused its discretion by granting TDCJ’s motion to dismiss his suit against the individual appellees under section 101.106 of the Tort Claims Act even though he also filed claims under title 42, section 1983 of the U.S.Code; (2) the court abused its discretion by granting the plea to the jurisdiction without…