Elgin lawsuit appeal expected

The third party team in Elgin’s recent lawsuit with Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton is eyeing an appeal, trying to get back in the fight for the city’s voter approved marijuana-focused ordinance.

Attorney Richard Gladden, defendant- intervenor Decriminalize Elgin’s representative, filed a pleading July 11 in the Fort Worth Court of Appeals concerning a similar initiative ordinance case in Denton, north of Dallas. As in Elgin, the District Court granted the motion to strike his third party’s petition in intervention from plaintiff State of Texas.

“The [petition] discusses the same error the Bastrop County District Judge fell into, and it is an issue that will be included, among others, in the appeal by Decriminalize Elgin in its case,” Gladden said.