William Marsh Rice University and Gary Spears v. Rasheed Rafaey

OPINION

Kem Thompson Frost, Chief Justice

A man arrested by a private-university peace officer sued the officer and the university asserting various tort claims based on the allegedly unlawful arrest. The peace officer asserted official immunity. Both the officer and the university moved for summary judgment on that ground. In this interlocutory appeal from the trial court’s denial of their motion, we conclude that the peace officer and the university proved their entitlement to summary judgment based on the peace officer’s official-immunity defense. Accordingly, we reverse the trial court’s…