· 5/29/2008
Texas Department of Public Safety v. Little
Citations
- 259 S.W.3d 236
- 2008 Tex. App. LEXIS 4051
- 2008 WL 2262150
How courts have described this case
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- holding dispatch call requesting assistance with a wanted person was an emergency call when officer testified without contradiction that law enforcement officers consider such a request to be an emergency
- holding dispatch call requesting assistance with a wanted person was an emergency call when officer testified without contradiction that law enforcement officers consider such a request to be an emergency
- burden is on the plaintiff to produce sufficient evidence to raise a fact issue concerning whether government employee was responding to an emergency
- where officer did not learn that emergency situation did not exist until later, but- was' responding to mis-coded emergency call, no fact issue was raised regarding whether emergency exception applied
- where officer did not learn that emergency situation did not exist until later, but was responding to mis-coded emergency call, no fact issue was raised regarding whether emergency exception applied
- call to assist with a wanted person considered an emergency
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Judges: Eva M. Guzman
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