Travis Central Appraisal District v. Norman

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• holding that Chapter 504 did not waive the appraisal district’s governmental immunity from its former employee’s Chapter 451 retaliatory discharge claim
• holding that inclusion in list of adopted provisions and election-of-remedies provision were not enough to constitute unambiguous immunity waiver in light of new no-waiver provision
• holding that Political Subdivisions Law no longer operates as waiver of sovereign immunity
• recognizing that counties are political subdivisions of the state
• holding court could no longer conclude that Political Subdivisions Law waived political subdivisions’ immunity for retaliatory-discharge claims under Chapter 451 after addition of Section 504.053(e)’s broadly worded no-waiver provision
• noting courts should “never” apply requirement that Legislature clearly and unambiguously express its intent to waive immunity “mechanically to defeat the law’s purpose or the Legislature’s intent”

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