Webb v. City of Dallas, Tex.

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• refusing to certify to Texas Supreme Court question of whether “sue and be sued” language waived City of Dallas’s immunity from suit because controlling authority from supreme court, i.e, Missouri Pacific , already addressed issue
• city had power to \exempt\ itself from suit but had not done so
• city had power to “exempt” itself from suit but had not done so
• city had power to “exempt” itself from suit but had not done so
• A [T]he vast majority of [Texas] courts of appeals to address the express legislative waiver question in the context of similar > sue and be sued = clauses follow Missouri Pacific as controlling Texas Supreme Court precedent. @
• “[U]nder Texas law, a suit against a municipality or its agencies arising out of the performance of its governmental duties … is deemed to be a suit against the State of Texas for purposes of state sovereign immunity unless some special exception applies.” (footnote omitted)

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