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Texas Prisons Not Immune In Tort Claims Act Suits
Loaded on Dec. 15, 1998
published in Prison Legal News
December, 1998, page 15
A Texas appellate court held that the prison system and its employees are not entitled to common-law immunity, official immunity, or sovereign immunity for a claim under under the Texas Tort Claims Act (TTCA), Texas Civil Practice & Remedies Code §101.021(a), when a prisoner fell down a staircase after being ...
Filed under:
Work,
Workplace Injury,
Work Conditions/Safety,
Premises Liability,
Sovereign Immunity.
Location:
Texas.
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