{"id":374037,"date":"2026-07-15T14:04:07","date_gmt":"2026-07-15T14:04:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/374037\/"},"modified":"2026-07-15T14:04:07","modified_gmt":"2026-07-15T14:04:07","slug":"dallas-council-members-drop-lawsuit-over-city-hall-vote-nbc-5-dallas-fort-worth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/374037\/","title":{"rendered":"Dallas council members drop lawsuit over City Hall vote \u2013 NBC 5 Dallas-Fort Worth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two Dallas City Council members have dropped their lawsuit over a potential City Hall vote, saying the court order blocking it gave them the relief they sought.<\/p>\n<p>The dismissal ends a legal fight 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. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/news\/politics\/article\/dallas-city-hall-lawsuit-dismissed-22345205.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Click here to read more on this report from our partners at The Dallas Morning News.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two Dallas City Council members have dropped their lawsuit over a potential City Hall vote, saying the court&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":177395,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[102,581,104,103],"class_list":["post-374037","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-dallas","tag-dallas","tag-dallas-county","tag-dallas-headlines","tag-dallas-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374037","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=374037"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374037\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/177395"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=374037"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=374037"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=374037"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}