Supreme Court of Texas

Local Government Code section 89.004 does not waive county's sovereign immunity from suit, and where county's conduct did not waive its immunity, a claim for improper withholding of full payment under a construction contract is dismissed for lack of jurisdiction.

Appellate Information

• Argued 11/28/2001
• Decided 05/09/2002
• Published 05/09/2002

Judges

• Justice HANKINSON delivered the opinion of the Court, in which Chief Justice PHILLIPS, Justice HECHT, Justice OWEN, Justice BAKER, Justice O'NEILL, Justice JEFFERSON, and Justice RODRIGUEZ joined.

Court

• Supreme Court of Texas

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Ken Oden, Eric M. Shepperd, Todd A. Clark, Sherine Elizabeth Thomas, Travis County Attorney's, Austin, for Petitioner.


• For Appellees:
  
• George C. Baldwin, Lloyd Gosselink Blevins Rochelle, Kendall Dean Hamilton, Law Office of Ken Hamilton, Austin, for Respondent.