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Wednesday, September 06, 2006
Ind. Decisions - "Mendo gamer get near quarter million in legal wrangle"
The Ukiah (California) Daily Journal has a very long story today that begins:
An Indiana court awarded payments of $241,010.58 to the Mendocino Game Company, producer of the board game "Pirateer" and to its creator, Mendocino native Scott Peterson.The larger part of this, $196,260.58 was to pay him for his legal fees and court costs in the action he brought against a former trading partner, Warren Industries, for breach of contract and misappropriation of property from the game company.
Before breaking their contract, Warren distributed the buccaneering game to chain retail stores, leaving a select list of clients, independent stores, that MGC reserved for itself.
The jury for the U.S. District Court in Ft. Wayne, Ind. found in favor of Peterson's claim that Warren Industries of Lafayette, Ind. had harmed his company. They then ordered Warren to pay MGC $44,750 of the $25.7 million Peterson asked for. The judge later added $179,403.90 for attorney's fees and $16,856.68 for costs.
Warren had until the end of June to appeal and didn't. Peterson engaged in a hunger strike in Ft. Wayne last fall to speed up the trial, which he saw as being needlessly delayed. Warren has since laid off most of its Lafayette, Ind. workers and moved its assembly line to China.
Posted by Marcia Oddi on September 6, 2006 02:07 PM
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