a like immunity for municipal corporations [in false arrest statute] can scarcely be attributed to inadvertence or oversight”) (The Iowa Code was later amended to exempt municipalities from liability for punitive damages in wrongful death actions. Iowa Code Ann. § 613A.4(5)); Jackson v. Housing Auth., 316 N.C. 259, 341 S.E.2d 523, 525-26 (1986) (ruling punitive damages recoverable against city in wrongful-death action because legislature had created statutory exception to common-law prohibition against awarding punitive damages against city by specifically providing for punitive damages and by not limiting definition of “person” against whom such damages could be awarded to exclude municipal corporations); Texas Dep’t of Human Servs. v. Green, 855 S.W.2d 136, 143 (Tex.Ct.App.1993) (<HOLDING>); Lee & Lindahl, supra, § 21.31, at 791 (“In a
holding that whistleblower act waives the states governmental immunity from suit from liability of state and local government entities holding that government entities may not assert qualified immunity recognizing that under texas law governmental immunity embraces two principles immunity from liability and immunity from suit holding immunity from liability is not jurisdictional holding that qualified immunity is not merely immunity from damages but also immunity from suit