City of Dallas v. Albert

in which Justice WAINWRIGHT, Justice MEDINA, Justice GREEN, Justice GUZMAN, and Justice LEHRMANN joined, and in which Chief Justice JEFFERSON and Justice HECHT joined except to Part II-B.

This appeal involves a pay dispute between the City of Dallas and many of its police officers and firefighters. Pursuant to a referendum approved by the voters, the City adopted an ordinance addressing the pay of “each sworn police officer and fire fighter and rescue officer employed by the City of Dallas.” Claiming the City did not properly pay them according to the ordinance, some firefighters and police…