The city, on other hand, claimed that the former DME employees were placed on administrative leave for giving inaccurate and misleading information during the investigation into the then-council member’s actions.
Grim and Maynard filed a lawsuit against the city after they were placed on administrative lead.
“The day after they filed their lawsuit, they were fired,” Kilgore & Kilgore pointed out in a post Wednesday on the law firm’s website.
Stuart Birdseye, a spokesperson for Denton, reported in an email Thursday to the Record-Chronicle that the city has spent $1,291,295.39 of taxpayer money fighting what a jury decided in early 2020 when it agreed with Grim and Maynard’s claim: that the city had fired them in retaliation and violated the Texas Whistleblower Act.
Now the city is seeking to spend more money and continue the fight at the Texas Supreme Court — if the justices decide to hear the city’s petition, that is.
The city is arguing that Briggs wasn’t acting as a council member when she leaked the documents to the Record-Chronicle, despite her obtaining the documents through her status as a council member and suggestions she sought to influence the vote on the power plant when she leaked them to the newspaper.
“The appeal involves an important question of law that has significant consequences for all cities in Texas, which is why the Texas Municipal League and Texas City Attorneys Association joined Denton in filing briefing with the appellate court,” Denton...
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