We've been waiting for what seems like a very long time to find out what the courts would say, AGAIN, about a lawsuit brought by TML and some other plaintiffs, including Mel LeBlanc of Arlington. Some elected officials had been discussing government business over email with a quorum of officials and argued that this did not violate Texas Open Meetings Act (this has also been done at a local level), and in fact, that their freedom of speech rights were being curtailed by having to discuss business, gasp, in public, at an open meeting, instead of over email. The plaintiffs in a related case had been ruled against in 2006, Court saying that TOMA did not violate Plaintiffs .. First Amendment rights because open meetings were required pursuant to their official duties on Alpine City Council. From pg 3