Legal Opinion
Nancy Quested v. the City of Houston
Texas Court of Appeals, 14th District (Houston)
Decided August 7, 2014No. 14-13-00516-CVPublishedCited by 49 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
SUBSTITUTE OPINION
MARTHA HILL JAMISON, Justice.
We issued our original opinion in this case on June 12, 2014. Appellant filed a motion for rehearing. We overrule the motion for rehearing, withdraw our previous opinion, and issue this substitute opinion.
Today we decide whether an on-call Houston Police Department SWAT 1 officer driving his personal vehicle to respond to a hostage stand-off situation is “responding to an emergency call” for the purposes of governmental immunity. 2 In two issues in this accelerated interlocutory appeal, appellant Nancy Quested complains that the trial court…
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