Arlington is facing a lawsuit over the city council’s vote to extend the Dallas Cowboys’ lease of AT&T Stadium and the use of $273 million of voter-approved venue taxes to reimburse the team for stadium improvements.
Warren V. Norred, a local attorney who has previously opposed stadium votes, filed the suit June 2 on behalf of Voters’ Voice of Arlington, a nonprofit organization of voters created ahead of the filing.
The suit alleges that the deal is not in line with the tax items that voters previously approved for the stadium’s construction. It seeks a judge to file an injunction blocking reimbursement and a permanent ruling stating the deal is not legal…