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Metro committee hears legal update on 2023 Council Reduction Act; court argument docketed for Feb. 12
Summary
Metro’s Director of Law, Wally Dietz, told a council committee that Metro has filed briefs in its challenge to the 2023 Council Reduction Act, that a preliminary injunction was granted on April 10, and that the case is currently docketed for argument on Feb. 12 with a reply brief due Jan. 16.
Chair Sharon Capp convened a committee meeting to brief council members and the public on ongoing litigation over the 2023 Council Reduction Act and to hear questions from council members. Metro Director of Law Wally Dietz, who is leading the legal team, delivered the update and laid out likely next steps.
Dietz told the committee that Metro sued over four 2023 measures affecting local governance and that Metro prevailed at the trial court on all four claims; the fairgrounds-related measure was not appealed. He said Metro filed a challenge to the council‑reduction provision and obtained a preliminary injunction on April 10. “We filed suit within a week. We asked for a preliminary injunction, and we won that injunction on April 10,” Dietz said.
Dietz described what he called “extraordinary” provisions in the 2023 act: a mandatory reduction of metropolitan councils larger than 20 to a 20‑member body; statutory requirements directing the planning commission to draw district boundaries on a tight…
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