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Untitled Texas Attorney General Opinion

Texas Attorney General Reports

Decided July 2, 2015No. KP-0031Published

1Opinion of the Court

KEN PAXTON ATTORNEY GENERAL OF TEXAS August 10, 2015 The Honorable Susan Hawk Opinion No. KP-0031 Dallas County District Attorney Frank Crowley Courts Building Re: Duty of a county to provide legal 133 North Riverfront Boulevard, LB 19 representation for a former county employee Dallas, Texas 75207-4399 under subsections 157.901(a) and (b) of the Local Government Code (RQ-0011-KP) Dear Ms. Hawk: You state that a former detention service officer has asked Dallas County "to employ and pay for private legal counsel to represent him in a civil suit" in federal court based on allegations that the…

2Cases cited7 opinions

  1. Leleaux v. Hamshire-Fannett Independent School DistrictTexas Supreme Court · 1992
  2. Texas Municipal League Intergovernmental Risk Pool v. Texas Workers' Compensation CommissionTexas Supreme Court · 2002
  3. Texas & Pacific Railway Co. v. HagenlohTexas Supreme Court · 1952
  4. City of Pasadena v. SmithTexas Supreme Court · 2009
  5. TDIndustries, Inc. v. Rivera, Texas Court of Appeals, 1st District (Houston)2011

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