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Texas Appellate Courts Are Likely To Find Waivers Of Sovereign Immunity Of State Agencies In Anti-Retaliation Claims Under The State Applications Act, Tri T. Truong
Tri T Truong
The State of Texas, its agencies, and political subdivisions enjoy immunity from suit and liability unless the Texas Legislature (“Legislature”) expressly waives immunity. When an anti-retaliation claim is filed against a state agency, that agency does not have the same protection under Texas law to invoke sovereign immunity as does a municipality or other governmental subdivisions, even though the two governmental entities are governed by similar statutes—the State Applications Act (“Act”) and the Political Subdivisions Law (“PSL”), respectively. This paper focuses on four principal cases: Barfield, Fernandez, Norman, and Beltran. In 1995, the Barfield court decided that the election-of-remedies provision …