{"id":397100,"date":"2026-08-04T05:20:16","date_gmt":"2026-08-04T05:20:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/397100\/"},"modified":"2026-08-04T05:20:16","modified_gmt":"2026-08-04T05:20:16","slug":"judges-open-to-texas-homeowners-challenge-of-austins-tax-power","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/397100\/","title":{"rendered":"Judges Open to Texas Homeowners\u2019 Challenge of Austin\u2019s Tax Power"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A panel of federal appeals court judges indicated they don\u2019t think a lower court was right to dismiss a tax lawsuit from a group of Texas homeowners who say Austin\u2019s 2019 annexation of their homes was improper. <\/p>\n<p>Judge Kurt D. Engelhardt of the US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit said that, while the city is now taxing these homes, it may not be providing them with municipal services like water and wastewater.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYour opponent is saying they\u2019re not getting city services, they\u2019re paying for something they\u2019re not getting,\u201d Engelhardt told Austin\u2019s attorney in Monday\u2019s argument.<\/p>\n<p>In 2019 the &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A panel of federal appeals court judges indicated they don\u2019t think a lower court was right to dismiss&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":397101,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[132,134,133,139508,63128,10642,18016,39571,139509],"class_list":["post-397100","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-austin","tag-austin","tag-austin-headlines","tag-austin-news","tag-collection-of-tax","tag-due-process","tag-federal-tax","tag-injunctions","tag-municipal-tax","tag-takings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397100","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=397100"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397100\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/397101"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=397100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=397100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=397100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}