Durham v. Bowie County

How courts have described this case

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• holding that Bowie County’s placement of warning signs at a chasm caused by storms and flooding constituted an emergency, as a matter of law
• holding that “the first requirement of the statute [was] satisfied in that the evidence conclusively demonstrate[d] Bowie County was reacting to an emergency situation at the time its employees placed the road closure signs February 16”
• reiterating that immunity is not waived so long as action taken complies with the laws and ordinances applicable to emergency action

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).