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August 31, 2010 · Updated 10:33 AM 

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A lawsuit filed by three King County taxpayers, including a retired Seattle assistant city attorney, alleges the purchase an old Eastside rail line between Renton and Snohomish was illegal. The plaintiffs say port officials overstepped their authority by purchasing the 42-mile Eastside rail corridor and misused port tax money to buy it from BNSF Railway Company, according to a seattlepi.com story.

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