• Justine Wadsack won’t pay city’s legal fees in civil rights lawsuit • City of Tucson requested a $7,838 reimbursement for court preparations • Wadsack now works for Turning Point, a conservative student organization

Justine Wadsack is finally off the financial hook for the civil rights lawsuit she filed and then dismissed against the city of Tucson.

In an Oct. 3 order, U.S. District Court Judge Jennifer Zipps rejected a request by lawyers for the city that the former state senator from the Tucson area reimburse them for the $7,838 they spent preparing for a hearing that Wadsack did not show up to.

Zipps said courts have “inherent powers” to impose sanctions — including the legal fees of an opposing party — “to maintain order and preserve the dignity of the court.”

However, she no

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