Legal Opinion

Webb v. City of Dallas TX

Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit

Decided January 16, 2003No. 01-11398PublishedCited by 2 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

KING, Chief Judge:

This interlocutory appeal requires us to decide whether, as the district court held, Defendants are immune from suit based on Texas’s doctrine of sovereign immunity. Resolution of this question requires us to first decide whether the Plaintiffs have constitutional standing to sue. Because we agree that Plaintiffs have asserted a claim in this controversy sufficient to satisfy Article Ill’s minimum constitutional standing requirements and that state sovereign immunity from suit does not bar Plaintiffs’ claims against Defendants, we affirm the order of the district court to…

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3Cited by2 opinions

  1. Tooke v. City of MexiaTexas Supreme Court · 2006
  2. Webb v. City of Dallas, Tex.Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 2002

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