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TEXAS DEPARTMENT OF TRANS v. JONES

No. 99-0126.

8 S.W.3d 636 (1999)

TEXAS DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION, Petitioner, v. Stephen JONES, Respondent.

Supreme Court of Texas.

December 2, 1999.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Susan Desmarais Bonnen, Kurt Howard Kuhn, John Cornyn, Hector J. Flores, Andy Taylor, Linda Eads, Grady Click, Gregory S. Coleman, Julie Caruthers Parsley, Austin, for Petitioner.

Dale S. Kasofsky, McAllen, for Respondent.

PER CURIAM.

Today we reaffirm that governmental immunity from suit defeats a trial court's subject matter jurisdiction and thus is properly asserted in a plea to the jurisdiction. Without considering the merits of the Texas Department of Transportation's plea to the jurisdiction, the court of appeals in this case held otherwise and affirmed the trial court's denial of the Department's plea. Texas Dept. of Trans. v. Stephen Jones, 983 S.W.2d...

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