A lawsuit against the City of Orange Beach seeking public records is back in action after being initially dismissed for structural issues.

A federal judge ruled that the initial complaint by Orange Beach “citizen journalist” C.C. Dixon-Moreno amounted to an improper “shotgun pleading” and ordered that the case be dismissed while allowing Dixon-Moreno 30 days to amend the complaint and re-file.

That amended complaint is in, re-kindling the lawsuit in search of body cam footage that purportedly shows Mayor Tony Kennon at the scene of a domestic violence call on city property last year. A bartender at the Pleasure Island Tiki Bar reported seeing a naked man repeatedly punching a woman on the balcony of the Coastal Resources building.

Dixon-Moreno, a Mississippi attorney that has not yet ga

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