DALLAS — Two Dallas City Council members have dropped their lawsuit challenging a potential City Hall vote after a court order blocked the action they sought to prevent.
Council members Paula Blackmon and Adam Bazaldua voluntarily dismissed their claims against the city, City Manager Kimberly Bizor Tolbert and City Secretary Bilierae Johnson on July 2, according to Dallas County court records. State District Judge Eric Moyé formally dismissed the case four days later.
The lawsuit centered on whether the city could move forward with a vote involving the future of Dallas City Hall, one of the city’s most significant civic decisions.
City leaders are weighing whether to spend hundreds of millions of dollars renovating the nearly 50-year-old City Hall, designed by architect I.M. Pei, or relocate municipal operations and redevelop the 12-acre downtown property.
Attorney John Adams, who represented Blackmon and Bazaldua, said the court order blocking the vote provided the relief they were seeking, making further litigation unnecessary.
“We certainly don’t want to waste the city’s resources or anyone else’s in continuing litigation when there’s nothing left to fight about,” Adams said Tuesday.
