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CITY OF WACO v. WILLIAMS

No. 10-06-00072-CV.

209 S.W.3d 216 (2006)

CITY OF WACO, Appellant, v. Robert Earl WILLIAMS, Jr. and Maggie Williams Walton, Individually and on behalf of the Estate of Robert Earl Williams, Sr., Deceased, Appellees.

Court of Appeals of Texas, Waco.

Opinion October 30, 2006.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Alfred MacKenzie, Haley & Olson PC, Waco, for appellant.

Vic Feazell, Feazell Tighe LLP, Austin, Douglas D. Fletcher, Fletcher & Springer LLP, Dallas, for appellees.

Before Chief Justice GRAY, Justice VANCE, and Justice REYNA.

Opinion by Chief Justice Gray October 30, 2006.

BILL VANCE, Justice.

In this interlocutory appeal of the trial court's denial of the city's plea to the jurisdiction, we must decide if the Texas Tort Claims Act's intentional-tort exception to its waiver of sovereign immunity applies when police officers shoot a person with Tasers.1 We hold that the plaintiffs' claims allege an intentional...

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