Constitutional Questions
The Cactus Car Planter – art or nuisance – <a href="https://cactusjungle.com/archives/blog/exit.php?url_id=1783&entry_id=1589" title="http://www.sanmarcosrecord.com/local/local_story_017111133.html" onmouseover="window.status=’http://www.sanmarcosrecord.com/local/local_story_017111133.html’;return true;" onmouseout="window.status=”;return true;">lawsuit in Austin</a> takes on a decidely consititutional character as the business owners refuse to move it. <br /><br /><div style="margin-left: 40px;"><span style="font-style: italic;">Less than a week after Municipal Judge John Burke ruled the Oldsmobile turned cactus planter outside the San Marcos Planet K store a public nuisance, the companys founder and CEO has filed in district court for an injunction, and the city of San Marcos is about to turn it over to the feds….<br />
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Over a cactus planter? Federal Court?, he said…. All we wanted to do is to beautify a car and beautify our property and we did that…. the worst part is bureaucrats are continuing to waste taxpayer money on nonsense like a cactus planter…."<br />
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In the meantime, the car will stay where it is. The city will not do anything until everybodys had the opportunity to be heard, so it will sit there.</span><br /></div><br />I’m sending our Texas reporter out to get a look. Hopefully she’ll report back soon.<br /><br />
