Lubbock County Water Control & Improvement District v. Church & Akin, L.L.C.

in which Chief Justice HECHT, Justice GREEN, Justice GUZMAN, Justice LEHRMANN, Justice DEVINE, and Justice BROWN joined.

In this interlocutory appeal from the denial of a governmental entity’s plea to the jurisdiction, we determine whether the parties’ lease agreement constituted “a written contract stating the essential terms of [an] agreement for providing goods or services to [a] local governmental entity” under Chapter 271 of the Texas Local Government Code. We hold that, although the lease generally prohibited the lessee from using the property for any purpose other than operation of a…