Ltts Charter School, Inc. D/b/a Universal Academy, Petitioner v. C2 Construction, Inc., Respondent

Summary

The Texas Supreme Court held that an open‑enrollment charter school is a “governmental unit” under the Tort Claims Act, permitting it to take an interlocutory appeal of a trial court’s denial of a plea to the jurisdiction; the court reversed the appellate court’s dismissal and remanded for further proceedings. Justice Guzman dissented, arguing that privately run charter schools do not derive status from legislative enactments and therefore lack governmental‑unit status, and would have affirmed the dismissal.