Empower Texans Inc. and two of its employees have sued Rep. Charlie Geren, R-Lake Worth, alleging he violated their free-speech rights by denying them press passes to cover the Texas House.

Central questions in the dispute are whether Empower Texans is a media organization or a political action committee, whether it’s editorially independent of a lobbying organization and whether or not it’s principally a general news organization.

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