CITY OF DALLAS v. SANCHEZ

No. 15-0094.

494 S.W.3d 722 (2016)

CITY OF DALLAS, Petitioner, v. Diane SANCHEZ, Individually and as Representative of the Estate of Matthew Sanchez, Deceased, and Arnold Sanchez, Respondents.

Supreme Court of Texas.

Opinion Delivered: July 1, 2016.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Barbara E. Rosenberg , Assistant City Attorney, James B. Pinson , Assistant City Attorney, Patricia Medrano De La Garza , Assistant City Attorney, Warren M.S. Ernst , Dallas City Attorney, Dallas, for Petitioner City of Dallas.

Charles (Chad) E. Baruch , Johnston Tobey Baruch, P.C., Dallas, Michael Brett Anthony , Anthony & Peterson, L.L.P, Corpus Christi, for Respondents Arnold Sanchez and Diane Sanchez.


Hours before Matthew Sanchez died from a drug overdose, a 9-1-1 operator dispatched an ambulance to his apartment complex. Once on scene, however, emergency personnel provided assistance to a different drug-overdose victim at the same complex and then left the premises without aiding Sanchez, erroneously concluding that two closely timed 9...

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