Legal Opinion
Sykes v. Harris County
Texas Court of Appeals, 1st District (Houston)
Decided September 12, 2002No. 01-00-01162-CVPublishedCited by 10 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
JACKSON B. SMITH, JR., Justice (Retired).
Faye Sykes, individually, and as next friend of Trenard Battle appeals the trial court’s orders granting Harris County’s plea to the jurisdiction and Carl Borchers’s motion for summary judgment. We affirm, as reformed, in part and reverse and remand, in part.
Facts
George Sykes was incarcerated in the Harris County jail on September 3, 1997. In this lawsuit, Sykes alleged: (1) he was assigned a bed near another inmate, known as “Little Black Pettit;” (2) Pettit was infected with tuberculosis; (3) Sykes was forced to sleep next to Pettit; (4) while…
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- Harris County v. SykesTexas Supreme Court · 2004
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- Como v. CITY OF BEAUMONT, TEXAS, Texas Court of Appeals, 9th District (Beaumont)2011
- Debbie Fiske, Individually and as Next Friend of Christopher Roy Rodriguez, and Raymond Rodriguez v. Leanne Heller, M.D., Texas Court of Appeals, 3rd District (Austin)2004
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