Chief Justice PHILLIPS delivered the opinion of the Court, joined by Justice HECHT, Justice OWEN, Justice BAKER, Justice HANKINSON, Justice O'NEILL, and Justice JEFFERSON.
This is an interlocutory appeal of a plea to the jurisdiction by the Texas Department of Criminal Justice (TDCJ). An inmate's wife sought damages following her husband's death from meningitis while incarcerated in a TDCJ facility. We must decide whether the plaintiff has established waiver of sovereign...
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