Plaintiffs who filed a lawsuit against the Lost Rabbit Development and Madison County tried to seal a Madison County study of the project last week after Madison Mayor Mary Hawkins-Butler filed a public records request for the study.
Robert Robison, Amanda Robison, and Nichols Reservoir Investments filed
the lawsuit in 2012. Nichols is owned by Terry Lovelace. They sued Lost Rabbit, Allstate Insurance (bondholders), PRVWSD, Madison County, Gerald Barber, and Kay Pace. They claimed they suffered injury as they were forced to pay thousands of dollars in special assessments while other leaseholders did not have to do so.
The Madison County Board of Supervisors voted 5-0 to spend $25,000 on a study concerning the Lost Rabbit development. The September 16, 2013 minutes state:
During Executive Session, Mr. Karl M. Banks did offer and Mr. Ronny Lott did second a motion to hire the firm of Rogers &; Associates as a real estate consulting and advisory service for the benefit of providing a restructuring of Lost Rabbit development with MCEDA sharing in half of the cost for said service in a total cost amount of up to $25,000.00. (p.22 of the minutes)
The Mayor filed a public records request for the study. The plaintiffs in the lawsuit asked the court to seal the study. They didn't just file a motion but an emergency motion. They really didn't want anyone seeing this study. The plaintiffs argue the study is the work product of the attorney and its client. Hmmm..... that is really weird. The plaintiff is asking the judge to seal the study on the grounds it is the defendant's attorney-client work product. However, the plaintiffs do state they participated in the study (f) and argue they provided confidential information. The plaintiffs voluntarily dismissed their motion on December 16.
Mr. Espy told this website the study is attorney-client work product and it will release details of the study after a settlement is reached.
People who have read this website for years know what is coming next.
18 comments:
It should be made public. Tax payer funds were used to get it!
Mikey is barking up the wrong tree. He would be smart to release it.
Why the hell hasn't candidate Ronny Lott called for its release?
Kingfish,
I saw the last comment you made. Not trying to be smart, but I've read this website for years and I don't know what's coming next. Tell us what you think?
Study up 1:49 PM on the Hinds County vs Motorola business. Hard to understand how you've been here for years and missed that donnybrook which KF won!
Tim Johnson works for Lovelace. His hands are all over this bailout. Karl owes Lovelace too as does John Bell. We need a comment from Ronny.
What comes next is embarrassment and sneaking and creeping exposed for the public to see.
Let Queen Mary get a copy of it and I guarantee you something positive will happen---she is tenacious when riled up
Hey Mike, maybe you ought to retain Precious as co-counsel on this so he can get his fat ass kicked again.
I think Kingfish is exhibiting his 'chump ass self' again calling our mayor 'the queen'. She's within her rights and is representing the residents of Madison.
The only way for Lost Rabbit get back on its feet is for the PID to go away. Allstate isn't going to walk away from their bonds so Lovelace figures that his buddies at the county can simply use country property taxes (again public funds) to make Allstate whole so that he can develop the rest of Lost Rabbit and recover his investment in Lost Rabbit. What is puzzling is why the supervisors want to keep the Allstate negotiation secret. What are they trying to hide?
Probably because they have Rudy doing engineering surveys all over Lost Rabbit as if they weren't already done. they can charge that back to Allstate, Rudy gets his money and he adds a bit to his annual Christmas checks to each supervisor.
John Bell is the blind hog who found an acorn, wondering why he stayed with Kroger as long as he did.
I saw a man building a huge tree house in Lost Rabbit yesterday in an open field. The place is decorated up for Christmas. Life goes on.
Kick their ass Mary! It can be done and Kingfish has proved it.
Richie Swartz takes questions today on Gallo show. Neither the callers nor Schwartz and the other attorney profess any knowledge of the facts. Schwarts asks if The Rabbit is in Madison City Limits. The caller doesn't know but claims to be an expert. Schwartz spouts opinions but comes across as an ambulance chaser. Wait..........
he doesn't just come across that way, he really is clueless. kept saying he didn't know, BUT... and throws around vague suggestions. dumb.
Who is Rogers and Associates?
Rogers drove Parkway Properties into the tank.
I am pretty sure the recession not Rogers impacted Parkway.
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