City of Waco v. Robert Earl Williams, Jr. and Maggie Williams Walton, Individually and on Behalf of the Estate of Robert Earl Williams, Sr.

IN THE

TENTH COURT OF APPEALS

No. 10-06-00072-CV

City of Waco,

Appellant

v.

Robert Earl Williams, Jr.

and Maggie Williams Walton,

Individually and on behalf

of the Estate of Robert

Earl Williams, Sr., Deceased,

Appellees

From the 414th District Court

McLennan County, Texas

Trial Court No. 2005-3409-5

Opinion

In this interlocutory appeal of the trial court’s denial of the city’s plea to the jurisdiction, 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…