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ROSENBERG DEV. CORP v. IMPERIAL PERF. ARTS

No. 17-0660.

571 S.W.3d 738 (2019)

ROSENBERG DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION, Petitioner, v. IMPERIAL PERFORMING ARTS, INC., Respondent.

Supreme Court of Texas.

OPINION DELIVERED: March 8, 2019.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Scott M. Tschirhart , Denton Navarro Rocha, Bernal & Zech, P.C., 2500 W. William Cannon, Dr., Suite 609, Austin, TX, George E. Hyde , Russell Rodriguez Hyde, Bullock LLP, 1633 Williams Drive, Building 2, Suite 200, Georgetown, TX, Lowell F. Denton , Denton Navarro Rocha , Bernal & Zech, P.C. 2517 North Main Avenue San Antonio, TX, for Petitioner.

James J. Burnett , The Law Office of James J. Burnett, 14090 Southwest Frwy., Suite 300, Sugarland, TX, for Respondent.

David W. Lauritzen , Cotton Bledsoe Tighe & Dawson PC, P.O. Box 2776, Keith David Stretcher , Attorney at Law, 5000 Chapel Hill, Midland, TX, for Amicus Curiae Midland Development Corporation.

The sovereign immunity doctrine prohibits suits against the government without the state's consent. Though rooted in the feudal fiction that the "king can do no wrong,"1 modern justifications for sovereign immunity are political, pecuniary, and pragmatic.

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