City of Amarillo v. Nurek

Appellants, the City of Amarillo and Terry L. Childers, in his official capacity as interim city manager,1 appeal the trial court's denial of their plea to the jurisdiction. The plea was directed to claims brought by appellees, Nathan Sloan Nurek and Michael Brandon Stennett, alleging that positions within the Amarillo Fire Marshal's Office (hereinafter, "FMO") should be classified as civil service positions subject to the Civil Service Act,2 and that appellees, who are firefighters employed by the Amarillo Fire Department, were improperly bypassed when they should have been promoted to…