EL PASO MENTAL HEALTH AND MENTAL RETARDATION CTR. v. CRISSMAN

No. 08-06-00254-CV.

241 S.W.3d 578 (2007)

EL PASO MENTAL HEALTH AND MENTAL RETARDATION CENTER, Appellant, v. Shannon CRISSMAN, Appellee.

Court of Appeals of Texas, El Paso.

August 16, 2007.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Angela Morrow Nickey, Robles, Bracken, Coffman & Hughes, L.L.P., El Paso, TX, for Appellant.

Lisa Elizondo, Elizondo, Hayes & Locke, PC. El Paso, TX, for Appellee.

Before CHEW, C.J., McCLURE, and CARR, JJ.


OPINION

ANN CRAWFORD McCLURE, Justice.

El Paso Mental Health and Retardation Center brings an interlocutory appeal from an order denying its plea to the jurisdiction based on sovereign immunity. For the reasons that follow, we reverse and render.

FACTUAL SUMMARY

In her pleadings, Shannon Crissman alleges she was a patient of El Paso MHMR in August 2005. Travis Logan, a caseworker employed by El Paso MHMR, began making sexual contact...

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