Former Mayor John Cook vs Tom Brown

final decisions today from a hearing today about former mayor john cook’s suit against word of life church leader tom brown. abc-7’s andrew j. polk is … is live at the county courthouse… rick/ashlie judge javier alvarez today put the biggest decision off for several more weeks. cook is suing brown for legal fees in the hundreds of thousands of dollars stemming from the recall effort brown led against him. brown was asking the judge to dismiss that suit today. the judge declined to do that, but will wait until both sides have answered some of his questions to decide if the case will proceed to trial. brown is also suing the city of el paso, alleging civil rights violations. the city wanted that suit thrown out today, and the judge declined to do that, as well. cook’s attorney didn’t want to speak to the media, but brown’s counsel says the case goes much deeper than legal fees. fees i hope that people pay attention to this case. its important, because what you have is an elected official whos trying to collect a million dollars in attorneys fees from a group of people for speaking out on a recall of that official. that is egregious, and its doubly egregious by enforcing a law that everyone understands is unconstitutional with the arguments they’re making. the ethics commission, the attorney generals office, say that this law cant be applies. if nothing changes, a bench trial for damages is scheduled for april 21. reporting live, ajp abc7 andrew, live downtown. thank you.