The Texas Supreme Court has managed to avoid taking the issue of government immunity head-on in disputes over land condemnation between government entities.

For more than a century, where public projects brought one government jurisdiction in conflict with another and the issue ended up in court, the tendency has been to resolve it by providing a waiver based on an identified public necessity—usually providing the two uses could co-exist.

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