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Saturday, March 18, 2006
Ind. Law - Porter County sues jail architects
Last reported on in the ILB here, on Dec. 18, 2005, in an ILB entry titled "More on: County to jail architect: Pay up or get sued", the Munster (NW Indiana) Times reports today:
The Porter County Commissioners filed a lawsuit Friday in Porter Superior Court claiming the county jail's architects built flawed cells that allowed two inmates to escape in September 2005.Tom Herr, the lawyer for Fort Wayne-based Schenkel Shultz Architecture, responded that it is unreasonable for the county to approve the design, occupy the jail for three years and then expect the firm to pay for changes.
The lawsuit says Schenkel Shultz breached its contract and its professional duty by designing flawed ceilings in the cells and is asking for damages of about $343,000, the cost of tearing out and replacing the ceilings, and legal fees.
The lawsuit stems from an attempted and, later, a successful jailbreak.
Posted by Marcia Oddi on March 18, 2006 10:23 AM
Posted to Indiana Law