Texas Department of Public Safety v. Barlow

joined by Chief Justice PHILLIPS, Justice ENOCH, Justice BAKER, Justice ABBOTT, Justice HANKINSON and Justice JEFFERSON.

This case presents a dispute between the Texas Department of Public Safety and a driver over the driver’s license suspension. We must decide whether Texas courts of appeals have jurisdiction over appeals from county courts at law in license suspension cases arising from a driver’s refusal to submit to a blood alcohol concentration test. We hold that the courts of appeals do have jurisdiction over such appeals. Accordingly, we reverse the court of appeals’ judgment dismissing…