Legal Opinion
Frasier v. Yanes
Texas Court of Appeals, 3rd District (Austin)
Decided December 16, 1999No. 03-99-00408-CVPublishedCited by 60 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
BEA ANN SMITH, Justice.
Three detention officers in the Travis County Sheriffs office were injured while performing their official duties. They brought suit seeking a declaratory judgment that article III, section 52e of the state constitution entitled them, as law-enforcement officers, to receive their full salary during their period of recovery. Sheriff Margo Frasier in her official capacity and Travis County (collectively Frasier) raised a plea to the jurisdiction, claiming that the constitutional provision is not self-enacting and did not waive sovereign immunity, or alternatively that the…
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