AURORA — A lawsuit against City Councilman Ryan Frazier that claimed he did not respond to an Aurora resident's open-records request has been thrown out of court.

Foster Hines was seeking documents concerning Frazier's campaign contributions.

Hines said board members of Carollo Engineers in Arizona donated about $1,500 to Frazier's campaign on the same week last year that the council approved a $10 million contract for Carollo for the city's Prairie Waters Project.

Frazier, the co-author of a right-to-work ballot initiative, said Hines was being backed by a pro-labor group called Protect Colorado's Future.

The group first brought the issue of Frazier's donations to the attention of the media. It later went on to make a negative television commercial about Frazier,using the donation issue.

Arapahoe County Judge Cheryl Post said Hines should have sought the documents through the city and that Frazier was not the proper defendant.

"I am so pleased that the judge saw this for what it is," Frazier said. "It was absolutely politically motivated and had no merit whatsoever."

Hines did not return phone calls for comment.