Mutchler v. Texas Department of Public Safety

BRADY, Justice.

This appeal arises from a class action by commissioned officers of the Texas Department of Public Safety requesting the court to declare statutory provisions that commissioned DPS officers should receive supplemental pay to be mandatory. The trial court held that it did not have jurisdiction over the Department of Public Safety, hereinafter DPS, because that agency was protected from suit by sovereign immunity. Further, the trial court rendered judgment declaring that appellee, Colonel James Adams, the Director of DPS, was not in violation of the statute in failing to pay such…