JEFFERSON CTY. v. JEFFERSON CONSTABLES

No. 16-0498.

546 S.W.3d 661 (2018)

JEFFERSON COUNTY, Texas, Petitioner, v. JEFFERSON COUNTY CONSTABLES ASSOCIATION, Respondent.

Supreme Court of Texas.

Opinion Delivered: April 13, 2018.

Rehearing Denied June 15, 2018.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

B. Craig Deats , Deats, Durst & Owen, P.L.L.C., 707 W. 34th Street, Austin TX 78705, Matthew Bradley Bachop , Deats Durst & Owen, P.L.L.C., 1204 San Antonio Street, Suite 203, Austin TX 78701, for Amicus Curiae.

Kathleen M. Kennedy , Jefferson County District, Attorney's Office, 1085 Pearl Street, 3rd Floor, Beaumont TX 77701, for Petitioner.

Lance P. Bradley , Bradley & Steele LLP, 3120 Central Mall Drive, Port Arthur TX 77642-8039, Andrew Lipton , Hobson & Bradley, 316 N. 13th St., Nederland, TX 77627, for Respondent.

Justice Lehrmann delivered the opinion of the Court, in which Chief Justice Hecht, Justice Green, Justice Guzman, Justice Devine, Justice Brown, and Justice Blacklock joined.


This case comes to us on a county's petition to vacate an arbitrator's award in a dispute governed by a collective bargaining agreement between the county and its deputy constables. The primary issue presented involves the validity of the underlying agreement; specifically, we are asked whether deputy constables are ...

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