Judge grants fed's extension request in land dispute

A federal judge in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas has granted a request by the U.S. Department of Justice to push back key dates in a dispute between Texas landowners and the Bureau of Land Management. Judge Reed O'Connor filed his order Wednesday, in which he also denied a request by plaintiffs' attorney for a hearing on their motion for summary judgment. "The Court finds that in light of the recently extended dispositive motion deadline, Defendants have shown good cause for the requested trial date extensions," he wrote in his order...more