Blake v. Parlin

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• holding that municipality lost immunity against certain claims by filing counterclaim
• holding that the city had no governmental immunity against police officers’ claims against city because both the officers’ claims and the city’s counterclaim were “based on the question of pay for the Officers’ employment”
• holding that governmental entity has immunity from suit as to “claims for amounts over and above the amount that would offset the City’s claim but were nevertheless germane to, connected with, and properly defensive to the [entity’s] claims”
• holding that waivers of immunity are the “prerogative of the Legislature”
• noting that trial court retained jurisdiction over counterclaims even though governmental entity had nonsuited affirmative claims
• noting that in Reata , \the City had little room to complain about litigation costs because it had decided to expend resources on litigation when it filed its affirmative claim\

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