Legal challenge says elected officials ‘abruptly’ went into closed-door meeting
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By Joshua Bowling
February 10, 2026
A new lawsuit accuses Doña Ana county leaders of violating the New Mexico Open Meetings Act in September before they approved $165 billion in bonds for the data center campus Project Jupiter.
The New Mexico Environmental Law Center filed the legal challenge on Friday and accuse elected leaders of “abruptly” pausing the testy September public hearing on Project Jupiter to go into a closed-door session “without providing reasonable specificity as to the subject matter to be discussed.”…
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