The Texas Supreme Court has rejected a suit seeking the court's intervention in a dispute over ballot language the Austin City Council approved for an Austin Convention Center voter proposition.

Local NAACP President Nelson Linder sued the city Tuesday over the ballot language the council approved last week on what is now known as Proposition B, a petition-initiated ordinance calling for elections on any substantial expansion to the convention center and a redistribution of millions of dollars of hotel taxes from the facility to the cultural arts.

On Thursday, the state Supreme Court notified Linder's attorney Fred Lewis the court had rejected their suit, dismissing it without prejudice, according to an order from the court.

In an email, Lewis said it was unclear why the court rejected the suit. He refiled the suit Friday with the 3rd Court of Appeals.

"They may have been saying ‘follow normal process and go to the Court of Appeals first,’” Lewis said. "So we filed with the 3rd Court of Appeals (in Austin) this morning."

The clock is ticking on Linder's attempt to overturn the council's approved ballot language for Prop B, which omitted any mention of reallocating hotel tax dollars to the cultural arts as opposed to the convention center. The Travis County clerk's office will begin printing ballots for November's election on Sept. 5.