John Wiley PriceDallas County Commissioner John Wiley Price sued the three Republican Commissioners (Mike Cantrell, Maureen Dickey, and Ken Mayfield) on the Commissioners Court in March of this year for allegedly violating the state open meetings laws. Price accused them of engaging in private discussions about the makeup of a panel on healthcare problems at the Dallas County Jail. The Republican Commissioners had been concerned about the failure of the previous panel to address the jail healthcare issues and felt that they were being excluded from the process of addressing those concerns. That panel did not even meet in 2004. DallasBlog broke the story Wednesday about a new Department of Justice investigation into county jail-related issues. Now, we have learned that John Wiley Price has agreed in principle to drop his lawsuit against the Republican Commissioners, with the Defendant Commissioners agreeing not to pursue their counterclaims against Price.

It looks like the original Price open records lawsuit turned out to be "much ado about nothing."

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