An Austin attorney seeking signatures to get his name on the 2017 ballot for election of the next president-elect of the State Bar of Texas has filed an open records suit against the bar.
On Tuesday, solo practitioner Joe Longley filed Longley v. The State Bar of Texas in a Travis County district court, alleging the defendants—the bar and its executive director, Michelle Hunter—have violated the Texas Public Information Act. According to the original petition in the suit, the key issue in Longley’s effort to obtain the necessary signatures to get his name on the ballot is “to protect and preserve the right of Texas lawyers to vote in disciplinary-rules referenda.”
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