St. Louis Taxpayers Need Not Approve Of Sports Stadium Built With Their Money, Judge Decrees

Chris | InformationLiberation
Aug. 17, 2015

From the St. Louis Post-Dispatch:
The city does not need voter approval before spending tax dollars on a riverfront stadium, a judge ruled Monday, jumping another hurdle in the race to keep the National Football League in St. Louis.

Circuit Court Judge Thomas Frawley declared invalid the city ordinance requiring a public vote, calling sections “too vague to be enforced.” The law has so many “uncertainties,” he wrote in his ruling, “their sum makes a task for us which at best could be only guesswork.”

Moreover, Frawley ruled, the placement of the new stadium, along the riverfront just north of downtown, does not break a state law requiring that the building be “adjacent” to the convention center. It is close enough, he said.

“Adjacent,” Frawley wrote, “has commonly been interpreted by Missouri courts to mean ‘near or close at hand’ ” — and not necessarily, he continued, “touching each other.”
Laws, shmaws, it's close enough, plebs!













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