CITY OF LAREDO v. LEAL

No. 04-03-00800-CV.

161 S.W.3d 558 (2004)

CITY OF LAREDO and Agustin Dovalina III, Appellants, v. David LEAL, Appellee.

Court of Appeals of Texas, San Antonio.

Rehearing Overruled February 11, 2005.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Deborah L. Leach, Albert Lopez, Lopez & Smith, P.C., San Antonio, for appellants.

Baldemar Garcia, Jr., Person, Whitworth, Borchers & Morales, L.L.P., Murray E. Malakoff, Law Office of Murray E. Malakoff, Laredo, for appellee.

Sitting: PAUL W. GREEN, Justice, SARAH B. DUNCAN, Justice, KAREN ANGELINI, Justice.


OPINION

Opinion by SARAH B. DUNCAN, Justice.

The City of Laredo and its police chief, Agustin Dovalina, appeal the trial court's summary judgment in favor of David Leal, a lieutenant in the Laredo Police Department. We hold the hearing examiner who heard Leal's appeal had both the jurisdiction and the authority to reduce Leal's indefinite suspension to a temporary 644-day suspension without pay. We therefore reverse this aspect of the trial court's judgment...

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