City of Austin - Austin
Recent News About City of Austin - Austin
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New lawsuit filed against Austin City Council, testing Texas’ taxpayer protection statute
On Monday, August 26th, attorneys representing seven Austin taxpayers filed a class action lawsuit against the Austin City Council.
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Austin’s multi-billion dollar light-rail project continues to face opposition from the Attorney General’s Office
On Tuesday last week, the Attorney General’s office released its pre-trial brief in the case against Austin’s light rail bond proposal. The case will be heard by Eric Shepperd, the presiding judge of the Travis County Court at Law Two.
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OPINION: Texas’s Cold War: A Call for “Ceasefire”
In Texas, the legal and political tension between state lawmakers and its populous, “blue” urban cities and counties is nothing new, but the intensity of this ongoing power struggle has, by any measure, increased in recent history. Undoubtedly this “Cold War” between state and local governments reached a crescendo during the 88th Regular Session with HB 2127 by State Representative Dustin Burrows. Popularly known as the “Death Star” bill, the legislation was intentionally broad in enshrining explicit language in state law limiting local governments’ historically broad statutory authority to impose regulation within their jurisdictions.