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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
Filed under: Work, Workplace Injury, Work Conditions/Safety, Premises Liability, Sovereign Immunity. Location: Texas.
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 …

 

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