回複：回複：回複：a unpleasure event with the city of government

I am not familiar with Texas law. Legally, the immunity they mentioned in the letter only applies to the state. 11th Amendment in the Constitution says nobody can sue the state in federal court without its consent. Later cases extended this immunity to suing state in state courts as well. It's true you can not sue a state for damages. 11th Amendment, however, does not bar suit for injunctions and most importantly, does not bar suit against local entities under the state, such as cities or municipality. Maybe Texas Constitution grants immunity to cities as well. Even so, I would argue that putting up a traffic light is not a government action. Deciding where to put the light is a government action but the actual installation of the light is a corporate function that should not be barred by the 11th Amendment.

In your case, you should hold the contractor liable and he has no immunity. You can sue the contractor and the contractor can implead the city. However, this does not seem very judicially efficient because you may spend five times the $6000 easily to get into the court, not counting appeals, which you know the city will, just to recover the damage.

I don't know if congressman can do anything because of the federalism issues. Your best option is perhaps to get money from insurance and let the insurance company to deal with the city and the possible lawsuit. Although you have my sympathies, I just don't think it is worth the fight.