County of El Paso v. Zapata

OPINION

GUADALUPE RIVERA, Justice.

The County of El Paso and Sheriff Richard Wiles, appeal the trial court’s denial of their plea to the jurisdiction and its order compelling arbitration. 1 We set aside the trial court’s order denying the County’s plea to the jurisdiction and compelling arbitration, render judgment granting the County’s plea to the jurisdiction, and dismiss the case for want of jurisdiction.

BACKGROUND

Richard Zapata, Ronald Nanos, Francisco Lerma, Lance Brown, Eduardo Rodriguez, Michael Reyes, and Edmundo Vasquez, Appellees, were employees of the El Paso County Sheriffs Office…