Legal Opinion
Hector v. Thaler
Texas Court of Appeals, 1st District (Houston)
Decided August 15, 1996No. 01-95-00873-CVPublishedCited by 3 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
COHEN, Justice.
Appellants are prison inmates who sued appellees, prison employees, the Texas Department of Criminal Justice (TDCJ), and the Texas Department of Criminal Justice— Institutional Division (TDCJ-ID), alleging that the prison is too noisy. The trial judge granted summary judgment. We affirm.
In 1992, appellants sued, alleging appellees negligently failed to enforce the prison’s low-volume radio regulation. The suit was dismissed as frivolous, pursuant to Tex.Civ. PRAC. & Rem.Code Ann. § 13.001 (Vernon Supp.1996), and they appealed. A panel of this Court held that prisoners do…
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3Cited by3 opinions
- Thompson v. Texas Department of Criminal Justice-Institutional Division, Texas Court of Appeals, 1st District (Houston)2001
- Hector v. Thaler, Texas Court of Appeals, 1st District (Houston)1996
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