Cases from the First and Fourteenth Court of Appeals

Prairie View A&M Univ. v. Dickens (Tex.App.- Houston [14th Dist.] Oct. 30, 2007)(Frost)(jurisdiction,
individual capacity claims, official capacity claims,
sovereign immunity)
AFFIRMED IN PART; REVERSED & REMANDED IN PART: Opinion by Justice Frost
Before Justices Anderson, Fowler and Frost
14-06-00966-CV Prairie View A&M University, Doris Price, Individually and as Vice President of Prairie
View A&M and George Wright, Individually and as President of Prairie View A&M University v. Brian
Dickens
Appeal from 164th District Court of Harris County (
Hon. Martha Hill Jamison)

En banc court reconsiders disposition in appeal from fire truck wreck; justice who
dissented on panel writes new majority opinion rejecting fire fighter's official immunity
defense

Green v. Alford (Tex.App.- Houston [14th Dist.] July 15, 2008)(Opinion on en banc rehearing by
Guzman) (PI,
fire truck collision, negligence, official immunity defense rejected, conduct not reasonable,
good faith)
AFFIRMED: Opinion by Justice Guzman  
Before Chief Justice Hedges, Justices Brock Yates, Anderson, Hudson, Fowler, Frost, Seymore,
Guzman, Brown and Boyce
14-05-00407-CV   Christopher Green v. Dwainia Alford, Individually and as Next Friend of Aaron Alford
and Ronald Alford
Appeal from 152nd District Court of Harris County
Trial Court Judge: Kenneth Price Wise
Concurring Opinion by Justice Frost   
Dissenting Opinion by Justice Hudson   

Houston Court of Appeals Holds that Firefighter was entitled to official immunity in suit based
on collision with fire truck - reverses judgment for plaintiffs -
Update: Opinion Withdrawn

Green v. Alford (Tex.App.- Houston [14th Dist.] Mar. 27, 2007)(Superseded opinion by Hudson)
(
personal injury, PI, firefighters liability for negligence, official immunity, good faith) Justice Guzman
dissented in Green v. Alford (Tex.App.- Houston [14th Dist.] Mar. 27, 2007)(Dissenting opinion by
Guzman)
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