City of Mesquite v. PKG Contracting, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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• rejecting city’s claim that waiver of immunity applied only to “claims of breach of the essential, written terms of an agreement, not for implied duties”
• “We cannot say on this record that PKG’s claim for damages is solely for damages excluded by the statute.”
• “Once the trial court determines whether the contract falls within the provisions of section 271.152, it need not parse further the pleadings or the contract to determine whether the legislature has waived immunity for breach of contract claims.”
• “Once the trial court determines whether the contract falls within the provisions of section 271.152, it need not parse further the pleadings or the contract to determine whether the legislature has waived immunity for breach of contract claims.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).