Well, if the city didn't join as a plaintiff with the hippie's pointless and doomed lawsuit, then the hippy's would have been required to have put up some sort of collateral in exchange for the damage that the lawsuit might cause by putting a basic, normal construction project on delay. So anything but the city fully backing the stupid hippy lawsuit would have been tantamount to a rejection, because, as we all know, hippies lack money. They do tend to make up their lack of money with lies about Indian burial grounds being under whatever building you'd like to build though, you have to give them that.
We don't have hippies here. Economy is based on forestry and mining industry, so hippies are hated, since they are bad for the economy. Real Indians are claiming some things about ancestral territory with new mines, but they usually shut up while giving them money.
