Supreme Court of Texas

By enacting section 321.003 of the Texas Health and Safety Code, the Legislature did not intend to waive the State's sovereign immunity to suit against state mental health facilities, for violations of the "patient's bill of rights."

Appellate Information

• Argued 04/03/2002
• Decided 03/06/2003
• Published 03/06/2003

Judges

• Justice JEFFERSON delivered the opinion of the Court.

Court

• Supreme Court of Texas

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Lisa Royce Eskow, Atty. General's Office, Austin, John Cornyn, United States Senate, Washington, DC, Howard G. Baldwin, First Asst. Atty. Gen. of Tex., Jeffrey S. Boyd, Office of Atty. Gen., Julie Caruthers Parsley, Office of Sol. Gen., S. Ronald Keister, Office of Atty. Gen., William Rich Thompson, II, Office of Atty. Gen., Austin, for Petitioner.


• For Appellees:
  
• Michael D. Moore, Weatherford, James B. Barlow and Eugene J. Dozier, Barlow & Garsek, Fort Worth, for Respondent.