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CITY OF DALLAS v. ALBERT

No. 07-0284.

354 S.W.3d 368 (2011)

CITY OF DALLAS, Petitioner, v. Kenneth E. ALBERT, et al., Respondents.

Supreme Court of Texas.

Decided August 26, 2011.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Barbara E. Rosenberg , Peter Brooke Haskel , James B. Pinson , Assistant City Attorney, E. Leon Carter , Munck Carter P.C., Richard A. Sayles , John Andrew Conway , Sayles Werbner, P.C., Madeleine B. Johnson , Southwest Airlines, Office of the Vice President, Thomas P. Perkins Jr. , Dallas City Attorney, Deborah G. Hankinson , William Richard Thompson II , Hankinson Levinger LLP, Dallas, TX, for City of Dallas.

William M. Boyd , John R. Stooksberry , Boyd Veigel, P.C., McKinney, TX, E. Lee Parsley , Texas Civil Justice League, Jay B. Stewart , Terry L. Scarborough , V. Blayre Pena , Hance Scarborough, LLP, Austin, TX, for Kenneth E. Albert.

Eric G. Calhoun , Travis & Calhoun, P.C., Dallas, TX, for Dallas Police.

B. Craig Deats , Deats Durst Owen & Levy, P.L.L.C., Austin, TX, for Amicus Curiae Texas State Association of Fire Fighters.

Philip A. Lionberger , Office of the Attorney General, Austin, TX, for Amicus Curiae State of Texas.

Ophelia F. Camina , Susman Godfrey LLP, Dallas, TX, for Boyd Veigel, P.C.

Justice JOHNSON delivered the opinion of the Court, in which Justice WAINWRIGHT, Justice MEDINA, Justice GREEN, Justice GUZMAN, and Justice LEHRMANN joined, and in which Chief Justice JEFFERSON and Justice HECHT joined except to Part II-B.

This appeal involves a pay dispute between the City of Dallas and many of its police officers and firefighters. Pursuant to a referendum approved by the voters, the City adopted an ordinance addressing the pay of "each sworn police...

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