Legal Opinion
Bexar County Sheriff's Civil Service Commission v. Davis
Texas Supreme Court
Decided December 31, 1990No. C-9249PublishedCited by 47 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
PHILLIPS, Chief Justice.
At issue is whether respondent, a public employee who could not be discharged except for cause, should have been provided with the names of his employer’s witnesses before either his pretermination or his post-termination hearing. We hold that, under the facts of this case, the Constitution imposed no requirement on the government to notify the employee of the names of the witnesses against him prior to either his pretermination or post-termination hearing.
FACTS
On September 17, 1985, Fred Davis, a captain in the Bexar County Sheriff’s Department, received a…
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