Texas Department of Transportation v. Malcolm G. Dyer

OPINION

Opinion by

Justice PERKES.

These cases are interlocutory, accelerated appeals from the trial court’s orders denying the Texas Department of Transportation (“the Department”) and Hidalgo County’s (“the County”) respective pleas to the jurisdiction based on sovereign and governmental immunity. 1 We conclude the trial court lacked subject-matter jurisdiction over all of appellee Malcolm G. Dyer’s claims challenged on appeal. We reverse the trial court’s respective orders denying the Department and the County’s pleas to the jurisdiction and render judgment dismissing all of Dyer’s claims…