Legal Opinion

Britton v. Texas Department of Criminal Justice

Texas Court of Appeals, 1st District (Houston)

Decided December 27, 2002No. 01-01-00461-CVPublishedCited by 263 opinions

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.

Standard of Review

In deciding a plea to the jurisdiction, a trial court…

2Cases cited20 opinions

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3Cited by263 opinions

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