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■Suif filed against paper
United Press International
RIO GRANDE CITY — The
Starr County Commissioners
Court, accused by a newspaper
of holding an illegal closed
meeting, filed a $1 million law
suit against The Monitor Mon
day accusing it of maliciousness
and sensationalism.
“It is in the interest of The
Monitor to stimulate news which
arise notoriety and sensational
ism in order to stimulate the sale
of their newspaper,” the com
missioners charged in the suit.
It was filed Monday in the
229th State District Court but
not disclosed until Wednesday
after a rival newspaper had pub
lished the story in banner head
lines. A spokesman for the dis
trict clerk’s office said the suit
had become “misfiled.”
The Monitor, located at
McAllen, had sued the commis
sioners April 4, charging the
group held an illegal closed
meeting March 24 at the Star
County Courthouse in violation
of the Texas Open Meetings
Act.
Jack King, the newspaper’s
executive editor, said, “I think
if s just a reaction suit. I don’t see
that they have any grounds to
sue us. We’re challenging their
ability to meet behind closed
doors — that’s all our suit is in
tended to do. I don’t see how
they can claim we damaged
them in any way.”
The commissioners sought
$750,000 in exemplary damages
and an additional $250,000 in
actual damages for what they
said was the Monitor’s “willful
and malicious filing of a non-
meritorious lawsuit.”
The suit, they charged, was
intended to injure commission
ers Amando Pena, Reynaldo
Alaniz, Jose Alvarez and Nor-
berto Montalvo, County Judge
Bias Chapa, and Star County.
The newspaper filed its law
suit after the commissioners pas
sed a budget without comment
after meeting behind closed
doors to discuss what was de
scribed as “personnel matters.”
Reporters were not allowed to
attend.
The Monitor charged that the
meeting was a “ruse” to thwart
e ublic participation in the
udgetary process.
The commissioners’s suit said
the Monitor had no legal stand
ing to sue them or any basis to
claim damages because the
newspaper is published in
neighboring Hidalgo County
no taxes in Starr
and pays
County.
The suit was filed on behalf of
the commissioners by their spe
cial attorney, former county
judge Frank Randall Nigh Jr.
and his partner, Isabel Trevino,
and Roma, attorney Arnulfo
Guerra.
The South Texas Reporter, a
Roma weekly in which Guerra
has an interest, carried exclusive
news of the county suit in ban
ner headlines in Wednesday’s
edition.
Contending the government
body did nothing wrong, the
commissioners asked that the
newspaper’s suit be dismissed.
FRIDAY
raise
i a fresl
eanngs set
major bl .
_on water plan
• I United Press International
itlH! AUSTIN — The Texas De-
A LlvJlHtment of Water Resources
■irsday announced eight re-
|ion,il hearings have been sche-
Bed this summer to receive
^ public comment on its draft
statewide water plan,
is been m»xecutive director Charles E.
ene igv ; Nemir said the plan addresses
ive gonett pterquality protection, conser-
.partment! vat ‘ on > municipal and industrial
iam Elliol Applies and environment,
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After the hearing process,
the 700-page plan will be sub
mitted to the Texas Water De
velopment Board for considera
tion of adoption of the amended
statewide water plan.
Here is the hearing schedule:
Longview, June 21; Dallas,
June 28; McAllen, July 7; Lub
bock, July 12; Abilene, July 14;
El Paso, July 19; Austin, July 21,
and Baytown, July 26.
Court rules retrial
e( j in speeding case
n
AUSTIN — An Austin woman
de said Jit who fought a $200 speeding
on the grounds that her
pd was “reasonable and pru-
gnt” although it was 10 mph
gpve the posted limit has won a
[trial.
The 3rd Court of Appeals
IMed Wednesday that the trial
ea |ed a si* 1 court judge may have pre-
he air^'Biced the jury when he noted
months fcjfeborah Day was driving 55
e beendf mph in a 45 mph zone on a south
lease. Beij]Austin street,
t an apP'
released
State law defines speeding as
driving a vehicle “at a speed
greater than is reasonable and
prudent under the circumst
ances then existing,” but does
not mention specific speed
limits.
While admitting she was driv
ing 55 mph, Day contended she
was driving at speed limits.
The appeals court ordered a
retrial “because we find the evi
dence entered at trial to have
been sufficient to sustain the
conviction.”
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is minimi
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