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Hearing set in suit against JCC

By by Ken Stanford
Posted 9:49AM on Saturday 30th August 2003 ( 21 years ago )
JEFFERSON - A hearing will be held next week on a suit filed against the Jackson County Commission over the method it plans to use in financing construction of a new courthouse in Jefferson.

Tim Venable, chairman of the citizens group that filed the suit, says the hearing will be held Tuesday afternoon.

The suit, which was filed several weeks ago, alleges that the commission would be violating the state constitution by incurring a $22 million debt to finance the construction.

But, attorneys for the county contend the financing mechanism proposed by the county is legal based on a ruling in a 13-year-old case originating in Rome.

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