Lawyers for a group of pastors and residents from the area where the new Falcons stadium is to be built pleaded their case Thursday, raising 20 objections they said should derail the city’s plan to issue $200 million in bonds to finance part of the $1 billion project.
The group has argued that an amendment to the state’s hotel-motel tax law passed in 2010 specifically to allow funding of the stadium is unconstitutional, as were the city of Atlanta’s subsequent moves.
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