Legal Opinion
Texas Department of Mental Health & Mental Retardation v. Pearce
Texas Court of Appeals, 10th District (Waco)
Decided May 10, 2000No. 10-99-156-CVPublishedCited by 31 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
REX D. DAVIS, Chief Justice.
Joy Pearce filed a wrongful death suit against the Department of Mental Health and Mental Retardation (“MHMR”), Mexia State School (the “School”), and certain employees of the School after her adult son Robert, a resident of the School, died from the ingestion of medication prescribed for Sheldon Harris, one of the defendant employees. Robert allegedly removed the medication from the pocket of Harris’s coat after Harris hung it on a hook on Robert’s bedroom door. The court denied a plea to the jurisdiction premised on sovereign immunity, which was filed by…
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