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Judge to render decision on Wiley injunction Friday morning
After a third day packed with witness testimony, the parties in the temporary injunction hearing on G. L. Wiley Middle School’s rested today.
Judge Jim Meyer, of the 170th District Court will review the case tonight and deliver a ruling on the injunction in the morning.
In an attempt to speed the case at Meyer’s request, the attorneys defending the Waco Independent School District dropped five of their witnesses and shaved off a significant amount of the questions directed at the last witness.
The plaintiffs’ attorneys, who had called witnesses for the last two days, also trimmed their cross examination of the defense’s last witness. Had the parties not rested by 5 p.m., Meyer told them, he would not be able to deliver his ruling until Tuesday.
The plaintiff’s attorneys, arguing for two Wiley families and a group of the school’s supporters, spent the last three days trying to prove Waco ISD trustees violated the Texas Open Meetings Act and the Texas Education Code. The plaintiffs also alleged racial discrimination by the school board and that irreparable harm was done to children in the East Waco middle school’s closing.
If Meyer rules for the temporary injunction, Wiley will remain open through the pending lawsuit. If he does not rule for the injunction, the school may close, per the vote the board took Monday night at a special meeting
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