Legal Opinion
Crane v. Texas
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Decided July 22, 1985No. 83-1650PublishedCited by 23 opinions
1Per curiam
On motion for rehearing, appellant Dallas County advances one contention requiring comment: that a Texas district attorney is an officer of the State of Texas, not of the county in which he serves, and hence that Dallas County is not responsible for the policies which its District Attorney set for it. The point is a nice one and fairly debatable. A complementary contention by the appellant district attorney maintains that as such a State official he partakes of its Eleventh Amendment immunity.
It is indubitable that a Texas district attorney has numerous, if relatively minor, attributes of a…
2Cases cited2 opinions
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