San Jacinto Savings & Loan v. Kathy Kacal, Defendant-Third Party v. Officer Tommy Hale and City of Waxahachie, Texas, Third Party

The original plaintiff, San Jacinto Savings and Loan, 1 initiated this action by filing suit against Kathy Kacal, Defendant/Third-Party Plaintiff-Appellant (Kacal), in Texas state court for breach of a lease. Kacal asserted a third-party claim against the City of Waxahachie, Texas (the City) and a city police officer, Tommy Hale (Hale), collectively, the Third-Party Defendants-Appellees, for violation of 42 U.S.C. § 1983, the fourth, fifth, and fourteenth amendments of the United States Constitution, and the Texas Tort Claims Act. Hale and the City removed the case to the United States…