William Marsh Rice University and Gary Spears v. Rasheed Rafaey

OPINION

KEM THOMPSON FROST, Chief Justice.

In this case we consider whether a private educational institution and a peace officer it employs are entitled to challenge by interlocutory appeal the denial of a summary judgment motion based on their affirmative defense of official immunity. The private institution and its peace officer, both named as defendants in a suit brought by a motorist the peace officer detained, bring this interlocutory appeal from the trial court’s order denying their motion for summary judgment on their affirmative defense of official immunity. The private institution and…