Britton v. Texas Department of Criminal Justice
Texas Court of Appeals, 1st District (Houston)
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
TIM TAFT, Justice.
Appellants, Wallace R. Britton, Sr., and Nancy Murphy, as next Mend of Norman Britton, appeal from an order sustaining the plea to the jurisdiction of appellee, the Texas Department of Criminal Justice (“TDCJ”), and rendering a final judgment dismissing appellants’ claims. We determine whether we must affirm the' order sustaining TDCJ’s jurisdictional plea because appellants do not challenge all of the jurisdictional plea’s .grounds on appeal. We answer that question in the affirmative and affirm.
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In deciding a plea to the jurisdiction, a trial court…
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