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· 11/10/1999

Scott v. Prairie View a & M University

Citations

  • 7 S.W.3d 717
  • 1999 Tex. App. LEXIS 8434
  • 1999 WL 1018168

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

  • holding that school's alleged negligence in allowing school counselor to use dormitory room to sexually assault one student and money to rent hotel room to assault another was too attenuated from assaults to have caused them
  • holding plaintiffs allegation that school negligently allowed her assailant to use school dormitory room to assault her did not state claim under TTCA
  • stating that the day room and door were not defective and were too attenuated from the actual injury to be considered the proximate cause of the inmate’s injury
  • stating that the day room and door were not defective and were too attenuated from the actual injury to be considered the proximate cause of the inmate = s injury
  • disagreeing with the reasoning in Hester and stating that the cell and door in Hester were not defective and too attenuated from the actual injury to be considered the proximate cause of Hester’s injury
  • although sexual assault of participants in summer youth program by counselor occurred in a hotel room rented by university and at dormitory at university, the injury was not caused by condition or use of tangible personal or real property

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Judges: Tim Taft

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