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Laura Pressley tells the Austin Monitor that she is disappointed but not discouraged by $100,000 in sanctions imposed on her and her attorney. The unsuccessful city council candidate added that the ruling awarding nearly $100,000 in damages to her former District 4 Council opponentand current Council MemberGreg Casar will not end her drive to challenge the results of the election she lost to Casar in December.
On Thursday, District Judge Dan Mills issued a final ruling granting Casars request for financial sanctions against Pressley and her attorney, David Rogers. Both Pressley and Rogers knew or should have known that their litigation was without merit, wrote Mills in his decision. Pressley was hit with $40,000 in sanctions, while Rogers was ordered to pay $50,000. The two were also ordered to pay more than $7,000 in out-of-pocket expenses incurred by Casars legal team.
Mills dismissed Pressleys lawsuit challenging the results of the election in May. In June, Mills indicated that he would award sanctions to Casar.
Pressley told the Monitor that while she disagreed with the sanctions, she said the judge did not sanction her in response to some of what she considers the most important questions she is raising about the election. Specifically, she said her complaint that Travis County did not produce legally-required ballot images and did not keep a backup results tape.
Read more: http://www.austinmonitor.com/stories/2015/07/judge-hits-laura-pressley-and-attorney-with-100000-sanctions-in-election-lawsuit/
hobbit709
(41,694 posts)Javaman
(62,534 posts)at the time of the election she had only lived in my district for 10 months.
she was a long shot at best.
hobbit709
(41,694 posts)LOL