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That nut was put at about e company hasn’t int of future rale k. lie group has pre ton City Council ures from metro- lents who oppose increase, rrently considers peels of proposed cl commission Ev oyle Kelly. ities i department, o: ponsibility to set per kind of sewer s farmland in the hen he and other imes. item. I think the) bs said, to drink. I don't oblems associated tiing by past gov- y all my life. I’ve Tubbs said. Tve , a water supply old anyone who im in the Brink ;o and Morning water and sewer- month struckJ king water to the improvement Dis- s irrigation water ; Stubbs, is elected n irrigation water Tuesday, February 21,1989 The Battalion Page 7 Attorney seeks removal of judge in Wal-Mart suit FORT WORTH (AP) — An at torney questioning the impartial ity of District Judge Bruce Auld in presiding over a lawsuit against Wal-Mart Stores Inc. has is filing i motion seeking Auld’s removal from the case. The motion filed last week by plaintiff attorney Wallace Craig said Auld is involved in a parental rights and adoption proceeding against a woman represented by Craig. Craig asked the Texas Su preme Court to appoint a judge to decide whether Auld should should continue presiding over the suit against Wal-Mart. Craig claims that Auld’s impar tiality “might reasonably be ques tioned” because of involvement in both cases. “I have verified by indepen dent sources (Rhonda Thorpe) Christian’s allegation that Bruce Auld was the attorney handling the termination and adoption proceedings in which Auld and his wife were adopting parents,” Craig said in a sworn affidavit filed in the Tarrant County Civil District Clerk’s Office. Auld has ref used, so far, to ex cuse himself from the Wal-Mart suit. Some Texas federal judges get paid for doing nothing Poll shows 1/3 of inactive judges get full salaries HOUSTON (AP) — One-third of the senior federal judges in Texas are collecting full salaries and nearly won a 50 percent pay raise even though they do no work, according to an Associated Press survey. Of the 15 judges on senior status, meaning they have retired but may continue to work, five do not hear cages. Last month, the Associated Press reported that na tionally 20 percent of all senior federal judges stood to collect the pay raise, eventually rejected by Congress, even though they no longer handle court cases. A complex retirement system allows the judges to re duce their caseloads sharply while still cjualifying for ac tive-duty pay increases. The inactive senior judges in Texas include James Noel Jr., Carl O. Bue and Owen Cox, all of Houston; Joe Ewing Estes of Dallas and 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Judge Joe McDonald Ingraham of Houston. Noel performed his last judicial duty in 1978 after taking senior status in 1976. Bue retired in 1987 and has not heard a case, accord ing to Jesse Clark, clerk for the Southern District of Texas, headquartered in Houston. Cox retired in 1981, did substantial work for most of a year until he became ill and is now on a life-support system, Clark said. Estes’ personnel director, Ellen Cole, said thejudge is bedridden. She did not know when he took his last case. Ingraham, who retired in 1973, has not heard a case since 1984, according to Lydia Comberrel, a spokesman for the appellate court. Bue and Ingraham did not return numerous calls from the AP. Estes declined to take calls, Cole said. Noel said his decision to opt for senior status was “a matter of choice.” He added that he regularly travels to his office to manage what he termed “extensive investments.” Although judges may opt to retire through resigna tion, senior status is by far the more popular option with 306 federal judges in the country choosing to do so. Congress created the senior judge category in 1919 as a way of luring older jurists to help ease court work loads. Most of the Texas senior judges still working are crit ical of Congress for not granting them a pay raise. In Texas, the workload is heavy. And the Southern District has the biggest backlog of cases in the country. In addition, there are two vacan cies created by the resignation of U.S. District Judge Gabrielle McDonald and the retirement last year of John V. Singleton, Clark said. The district also was recommended to expand by three judges in 1982, but that has not happened, according to the clerk. “I try as many cases, but I don’t manage a docket,” Judge Woodrow Seals of Houston, who took senior sta tus in 1982, says of his workload. “I’ve been trying cases since I retired. I only try the cases other judges can’t handle. If I can take a case that lasts two months off their dockets, they’ll be able to dear a lot of other cases. I don’t mind working hard.” When Singleton retired as chief judge for the South ern District in Houston, he transferred all 300 cases pending in his court. He also takes other civil cases. Most likely to ^succeed. 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