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TEXAS DEPT. OF TRANSP. v. RAMIREZ

No. 01-0432.

74 S.W.3d 864 (2002)

TEXAS DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION, Petitioner, v. Cecilia M. RAMIREZ, et al., Respondents.

Supreme Court of Texas.

Rehearing Overruled June 6, 2002.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John Cornyn, Attorney General, Howard G. Baldwin, First Assistant Attorney General, William Rich Thompson, II, David Bass Strain, Jeffrey S. Boyd, Office of the Attorney General of Texas, Julie Caruthers Parsley, Office of the Solicitor General of Texas, Austin, for petitioner.

Price Ainsworth, Francis Y. Pan, Spivey & Ainsworth, Austin, for respondents.

PER CURIAM.

In this wrongful-death action, we decide whether the Texas Tort Claims Act waives sovereign immunity from suit for a premise-defect claim based on an allegedly dangerous highway median. Cecilia Ramirez alleged that the Texas Department of Transportation's failure to correct or warn about a dangerous highway condition, which enabled a car to cross a highway median and collide with her husband's car, caused her husband's death. See Tex. Civ. Prac...

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