Showing posts with label SOS. Show all posts
Showing posts with label SOS. Show all posts

Tuesday, September 9, 2008

Judge throws out ruling against SOS

From Austin Business Journal, September 9, 2008...

The Save Our Springs Alliance scored a victory Monday when Travis County Judge Margaret Cooper voided a previous judgment against the environmental nonprofit.

SOS has argued that visiting Judge Bill Bender’s December 2004 decision ordering the group to pay the legal fees of a developer it had sued should be voided because Bender was “not qualified to hear the case.” Cooper agreed with SOS attorney Phil Durst’s argument.

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Saturday, June 28, 2008

The Hill Country Alliance on Water Conservation and Quality

From Austin Chronicle, June 27, 2008...

Five years ago, the staff at Austin's Save Our Springs Alliance was scrambling not only to maintain clarity at Barton Springs but to assist a handful of budding nonprofits setting their sites on conservation action. SOS Executive Director Bill Bunch, now a member of the Greater Edwards Aquifer Alliance board, assisted on the white paper that developed into the guiding principles of San Antonio's Greater Edwards Aquifer Alliance. And in the years since, in the wake of the increasingly developed geography between the two urban centers, a blossoming of the common-minded has occurred.

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