City of Fort Worth v. Deal

BILL MEIER, JUSTICE

I. INTRODUCTION

The Texas Tort Claims Act's (TTCA) limited waiver of sovereign immunity does not extend to intentional torts. Tex. Civ. Prac. & Rem. Code Ann. § 101.057(2) (West 2011). In this interlocutory appeal from the partial denial of Appellant City of Fort Worth, Texas's jurisdictional plea, we consider whether the TTCA's intentional-tort exception applies to Appellee Mary Deal's claim that her son's death following a high-speed police pursuit and crash was proximately caused by a police officer's *369negligent deployment of a tire-deflation device (TDD). Because, on…