A motions hearing is scheduled to begin at 9 AM tomorrow in the City's lawsuit against O'Brien & Gere Engineers in the Circuit Court for Wicomico County. An agenda is not available but there is a pending motion by that firm for judgment in its favor on some of the claims by the City.
It is possible that the retired judge who is hearing the case, David B. Mitchell, will make rulings that could be the beginning of the end. We will try to keep you informed as things happen..
Online information about the case indicates that Paul Wilber is still acting as the City's attorney along with a lawyer from Baltimore, Howard B. Goldberg. A month of so ago the City Council agreed to pay them more than $500,000 for their services in addition to the legal fees already paid by the City in this case.
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We're going to spend more than a million on this case, and get a million back from the contractor's insurance. What a cluster!
ReplyDeleteWe are paying Wilber all this money to fix something HE messed up by not reading and knowing what he was doing.
ReplyDeleteActually Mr Wilbur is not the person who had anything to do with the problems. Those 3 people most responsible are no longer elected and or employed by the City
ReplyDeleteHow could he have NOT had anything to do with it? He was the City attorney when the contract was written.
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