Wichita Falls State Hospital v. Taylor

How courts have described this case

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• recognizing that immunity from liability does not affect court’s jurisdiction to hear a case and cannot be raised in a plea to the jurisdiction
• recognizing that in modem times governments have retained sovereign immunity \to protect the public treasury\
• concluding that Legislature did not waive sovereign immunity from suits based on alleged violations of “patient’s bill of rights” found in chapter 321 of Health and Safety Code
• holding that statute waiving immunity need not be model of “perfect clarity” but must do so beyond doubt
• recognizing that sovereign immunity and governmental immunity are distinct concepts though courts often use the terms interchangeably
• recognizing that sovereign immunity and governmental immunity are distinct concepts although courts and litigants often use the terms interchangeably

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).