Thursday, October 16, 2003

Wise County files for rehearing in landfill fee case, administrator moves to dismiss civil rights claim

In these reports from the Coalfield Progress, here it says that Wise County has filed a petition for rehearing of the Virginia Supreme Court's decision in the landfill fee case, and here it says that the Wise County administrator has filed a motion to dismiss based on qualified immunity and failure to state a claim, in the federal civil rights suit brought by a woman who was criminally prosecuted for failure to pay the landfill fee before it was declared unconstitutional.

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