Cape News
City faces second lawsuit on meeting ban policy
The city of Cape Coral is now facing a second lawsuit challenging a policy that allows the Cape Coral City Council to impose attendance bans on those accused of violating its rules of decorum. Saying the bans are unconstitutional, Michael Thompson, chairman of the LeeGOP Executive Committee, filed suit this morning as a private citizen. "I filed this personally, this has nothing to do with the Lee Republican Party," Thompson said in a telephone interview. He expects the courts to quickly find that the portion of the city's rules of procedure that provide for bans ranging from 30 to 90 days are an abridgment of rights guaranteed by the First Amendment and the state ...
