{"id":373220,"date":"2026-07-14T23:04:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-14T23:04:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/373220\/"},"modified":"2026-07-14T23:04:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-14T23:04:08","slug":"dallas-council-members-drop-lawsuit-over-city-hall-vote","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/373220\/","title":{"rendered":"Dallas council members drop lawsuit over City Hall vote"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The dismissal ends a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/news\/politics\/article\/dallas-city-hall-lawsuit-seeks-contempt-order-22307831.php\" data-link=\"native\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">legal fight<\/a> over one of Dallas\u2019 biggest civic questions: whether to spend hundreds of millions repairing the nearly 50-year-old I.M. Pei-designed City Hall or move city operations and redevelop the 12-acre downtown site.<\/p>\n<p>Council members Paula Blackmon and Adam Bazaldua filed a notice July 2 voluntarily dismissing their claims against the city, City Manager Kimberly Bizor Tolbert and City Secretary Bilierae Johnson, Dallas County court records show. State District Judge Eric Moy\u00e9 dismissed the case four days later.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe certainly don\u2019t want to waste the city\u2019s resources or anyone else\u2019s in continuing litigation when there\u2019s nothing left to fight about,\u201d attorney John Adams, who represented Blackmon and Bazaldua, said Tuesday.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Blackmon and Bazaldua confirmed by text to The Dallas Morning News that Adams accurately characterized why they dismissed the case. It wasn\u2019t clear Tuesday how much the litigation cost the city or how Blackmon and Bazaldua\u2019s legal fees were billed.<\/p>\n<p>Bazaldua said the council members were represented by outside counsel already retained by the city, but he didn\u2019t know how much the litigation cost or how the legal fees were handled. A city spokeswoman declined to comment.<\/p>\n<p>Blackmon and Bazaldua filed the lawsuit June 8 with fellow council member Cara Mendelsohn, who later withdrew, challenging the agenda for a June 10 specially called council meeting on City Hall\u2019s future.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The original agenda asked the council to advance relocation planning for City Hall and emergency operations, begin a phased repair program and authorize\u00a0Tolbert to pursue redevelopment of the current site.<\/p>\n<p>Moy\u00e9 issued a temporary restraining order June 9 after concluding several relocation and redevelopment agenda items didn\u2019t give adequate public notice under the Texas Open Meetings Act.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The dismissal ends a\u00a0legal fight over one of Dallas\u2019 biggest civic questions: whether to spend hundreds of millions&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":335893,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[102,104,103,88574,87998,88000,88952],"class_list":["post-373220","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-dallas","tag-dallas","tag-dallas-headlines","tag-dallas-news","tag-tp-downtown-dallas","tag-tp-dallas","tag-tp-dallas-city-council","tag-tp-dallas-city-hall"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373220","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=373220"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373220\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/335893"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=373220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=373220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=373220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}