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Murfreesboro councilmember urges harder line in federal landfill litigation after lawyerletter
Summary
A councilmember urged the City Council to consider ending negotiations and taking a federal lawsuit over a local landfill to trial after an attorney sent a letter to the entire council and planning commission; the member said public-relations campaigns and outreach by the landfilloperator have complicated settlement talks.
A council member at the Murfreesboro City Councilmeeting on May 1 urged colleagues to consider moving the citys ongoing dispute with a landfill operator from settlement talks to federal court after an attorney for the operator sent a letter to the council and the planning commission during active proceedings.
The council member said the letter, sent by an attorney in Nashville, and a public-relations campaign by the landfilloperator have undercut settlement progress and amounted to intimidation of city decision-makers. "If protecting our public, protecting our natural resources, protecting the health and environment, and the…
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