City of Houston v. Gloria Esparza

How courts have described this case

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• holding that where city obtained dismissal of employee under subsection (e), subsection (b) did not bar plaintiff from pursuing claim against city
• explaining that when a plaintiff sues both the governmental unit and the employee, after the governmental unit moves to dismiss its employee, subsection (a) “endow[s] the employee with immunity”
• addressing differences in reasoning used by First Court and Fourteenth Court
• “Once a claimant has made an election under the statute—whether voluntarily or by operation of the statute—the claimant may never satisfy the Act’s jurisdictional prerequisites for bringing suit against the un-elected defendant.”
• Tex.App.-Houston [1st Dist.] 2011, no pet. h.

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).