West Virginia Tax Assessor Rethinking Plan To Stop People From Posting Public Tax Maps

from the okay,-maybe-it's-not-so-bad dept

Paul Alan Levy writes in with a followup to the story about the West Virginia Tax Assessor who was trying to prevent a website from posting public tax maps, complaining that it would take away a source of revenue. Apparently, the tax assessor is rethinking this plan. While she hasn't yet dropped the lawsuit, she has withdrawn the request for an immediate injunction and the case has been put on hold while the tax assessor and her lawyers "study" the matter.
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  1. identicon
    Anonymous Coward, 8 Feb 2008 @ 10:27am

    In other words, "we f-ed up and got called on it. Now lets see if we can back out gracefully."

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  2. identicon
    Anonymous Coward, 8 Feb 2008 @ 10:42am

    Into the lawyer's pocket

    I was wondering where those tax dollars had gotten themselves off to.

    Ahh...our money hard at work yet again.

    link to this | view in thread ]

  3. identicon
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    Re:

    You have no idea how long I've based the way I live my life on that very joke.

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    I've so got to save that :D

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