Attorney General Ken Paxton’s third lawsuit against a Muslim-centric development planned for North Texas comes days after a judge sided with the project’s developers.
Paxton’s latest lawsuit involving The Meadow, formerly known as EPIC City, accuses a municipal utility district tied to the project of violating open meetings laws and water code, the Dallas Morning News reported.
The district, Double R Municipal Utility District No. 2A, would provide sewer services for the project, which is expected to feature 1,000 homes, plus a school, mosque, retail and a community college.
The lawsuit claims the district’s board failed to provide proper notice when it met in September 2025. During the meeting, the board was replaced, and the newly appointed board annexed the 400-acre site on which The Meadow will be built. The lawsuit also alleges that the board members coordinated their resignations outside of public meetings.
“Whether this was done daisy chain, with one director talking to another and so on, or was done via email, some meeting of the minds occurred before the public meeting,” the lawsuit reads.
The suit asks the court to pause the annexation and require a court ruling before the board takes any further action.
It’s the third lawsuit from Paxton’s office regarding the project. In a December lawsuit, he accused the East Plano Islamic Center and the developer, Community Capital Partners, of violating state securities laws. He also sued the district in February, accusing it of actions that “appear designed to evade state oversight.”
The latest lawsuit comes days after Community Capital Partners scored a legal win in its lawsuit against the Texas Workforce Commission.
A Travis County judge determined that the Texas Workforce Commission is required to review the project’s updated housing policies — something the agency agreed to do in the settlement it reached with the developer in September. Community Capital Partners sued the agency when it refused to abide by the settlement’s terms.
The Texas chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations lauded the decision, calling the actions of state officials “Islamophic witch hunts and politically driven regulatory harassment.”
— Jess Hardin
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