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Wednesday, April 15, 2009

Ind. Courts - More on "Jury begins deliberations in Central Library fraud lawsuit"

Updating this entry from this morning, Jon Murray of the Indianapolis Star is reporting this afternoon that the library has lost its lawsuit. The story begins:

A Boone County jury has found in favor of an engineering firm in a lawsuit brought by the Indianapolis library system over the troubled Central Library project.

The verdicts, returned this afternoon, came after a trial lasting five weeks at the courthouse in Lebanon. The Indianapolis-Marion County Public Library had accused New York-based Thornton Tomasetti of fraud and asked the jury to award $24.5 million in damages, plus an equal amount in punitive damages.
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But today, the jury rejected the library's claims of fraud and constructive fraud, awarding no damages. The jury found in Thornton Tomasetti's favor on a counterclaim for $712,000 in unpaid fees for work on the project.

Posted by Marcia Oddi on April 15, 2009 02:47 PM
Posted to Ind. Trial Ct. Decisions