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Thursday, May 14, 2009

Ind. Courts - "Library will try to revive claims in fraud case"

Updating earlier ILB entries on the Indianapolis Central Library lawsuits, the Indianapolis Star reports today:

The Indianapolis-Marion County Public Library will not seek to overturn a Boone County jury's verdict against the library system, its lawyers announced Wednesday.

But the library is pursuing appeals to revive other claims that were never presented to the jury. Last month, after a five-week trial, the library lost its $25 million fraud case against a New York-based engineering firm, one of many companies targeted after defects were discovered in the concrete of the Central Library project's new underground garage. * * *

A petition filed Wednesday asked the Indiana Supreme Court to review the judge's pretrial dismissal of negligence claims against the engineering firm and an inspection firm. The Indiana Court of Appeals has already upheld that ruling.

A second filing began an appeal of another pretrial ruling dismissing breach of contract and negligence claims originally made by the project's architects. The library assumed those claims through its settlement with the architects.

[More] Here is an updated version of the story, reported by Jon Murray.

Posted by Marcia Oddi on May 14, 2009 01:01 PM
Posted to Indiana Courts