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Wednesday, January 10, 2007
Ind. Courts - French Lick casino disputes continue to be aired in Orange Circuit Court
Laural Lane reports in the Bedford Time-Mail:
PAOLI — Lawyers outnumbered spectators Tuesday during a daylong Orange Circuit Court hearing further delving into the bitter dispute between the partners that developed the French Lick Springs Resort Casino.Orange Circuit Judge Larry Blanton let both sides know he wished they could settle their differences outside the courtroom.
“Sometime, someplace, someone from Cook and someone from Lauth is going to have to sit down and bring some common sense and resolution to this matter,” the judge said. “What we have here is an economic and financial divorce in the making. Let’s either get on with it, or kiss and make up.” * * *
[dispute details omitted]
And [Judge Blanton] let the lawyers know, again, that with so much at stake, it would benefit everyone involved to work together to find common ground.
“What I would prefer, and I’m not holding my breath until it happens, is for all of you to sit down and work out a framework about how you are going to resolve your disputes,” he told the seven lawyers.
“You are all very capable and learned attorneys, but there has to come a time and a place where you have to tell your clients, ‘This is what we are going to do.’”
Posted by Marcia Oddi on January 10, 2007 04:16 PM
Posted to Ind. Trial Ct. Decisions