Saturday, March 19, 2011

It really was a bridge too far...

Appeals court sends bridge case back to trial



12 comments:

Jeff Hagen said...

Link to court opinion.

Paul Smith said...

Jeff,
Where have all the Glen Cove critics gone?? Maybe on vacation abroad?

thanks for the post and link.

BHL said...

The right thing now is for the city to go to TxDOT and do a mea culpa (granted the present are apologizing for the sins of the past) and start the process to get the bridge rebuilt, get the lawsuit dropped so we can get Hefland off the payroll, and so everyone can move forward and concentrate on current city issues pertinent to all.

Morgan_Campbell said...

The State doesn't have the money to complete budgeted road construction, much less non-budgeted construction.
http://tinyurl.com/6zw4lnc

Jeff Hagen said...

Tuesday night the city council voted to finally release the title reports on the bridge that they had previously voted to obtain.
It is now available here in two parts:
July 15 document
July 29 document

Note that this document presents itself as a "Title Report". It does not appear to be an actual opinion of title; in fact, it even says to in the disclaimer. "... does not express any opinion as to the validity of the title to the property..."

Jeff

Pirate said...

What? The appellate court sent the Glen Cove bridge case back to Galveston again (where it should have been heard in the first place)? So the case is NOT dead? You mean Glen Cove did NOT "lose" their case?
Oh my. What will The Hallisey Fallacy have to say now? Oh Patty Melt, where art thou? Here, Patty, Patty. Come out and play. What great words of wisdom do you have for us today, Pat? Inquiring minds want to know. What's a'matter, Pat? Cat got yer tongue?

Pirate said...

Morgan: If TxDot ain't got money for a real bridge, you reckon they might be able to put together a rickety old wooden one like the bridge Marc Edelman remembers?

Morgan_Campbell said...

;-)

Chuck DiFalco said...

For someone who has a short-title-report-legalese-gobbledygook-attention span, can one of you guys summarize, with key conclusions in 100 words or less, what these title documents mean?

Paul Smith said...

Chuck,
best question yet.
working on the short answer.

Joe said...

Yawn, Paul and Jeff need to get a better lawyer, learn to read. This is a dead case, yawn..

Jeff Hagen said...

Thanks for reminding me Joe. Sorry I didn't consult you before our attorney won the appellate case; I forgot that we were not supposed to win. I'll have to remind him that Joe says we need a better lawyer because he screwed up and won the battle that was supposed to be impossible for us to win.