Delay tactics by the University of the Incarnate Word prevented the parents of a student killed off-campus by a police office from getting to trial for eight years; those legal maneuvers are over.

Brent C. Perry, the Houston-based Burford Perry attorney on the family’s response as appellee, walked the Fourth District Court of Appeals through the university’s second failed motion for summary judgment to its last gasp. In its most recent opinion, the Fourth District again affirmed a trial court’s denial of a motion to dismiss.