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VANDEVENDER v. WOODS

No. 05-0956.

222 S.W.3d 430 (2007)

James VanDEVENDER, Petitioner, v. Honorable G. Mitch WOODS, in His Official Capacity as Sheriff of Jefferson County, Texas and Jefferson County, Texas, Respondents.

Supreme Court of Texas.

Decided April 27, 2007.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Philip Durst, B. Craig Deats, Deats Durst Owen & Levy, P.L.L.C., Austin, and Richard L. Aman, Cleat Senior Staff Atty., Houston, for Petitioner.

Thomas F. Rugg, Jefferson County Criminal District Atty's Office, Beaumont, and Thomas E. Maness, Criminal District Atty., Beaumont, for Respondents.

Justice WILLETT delivered the opinion of the Court.

Deputy Sheriff James VanDevender sought a declaratory judgment that Jefferson County and its sheriff, G. Mitch Woods, violated article III, section 52e of the Texas Constitution1 by failing to pay VanDevender's full salary during his second term as a deputy sheriff after he became disabled. That constitutional provision grants county law enforcement officers their "maximum salary" while...

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