Posted on 03/22/2017 6:19:30 AM PDT by artichokegrower
A federal court jury on Tuesday awarded more than $100 million in damages to two gravel mining families that accused Sacramento County government officials of putting them out of business for the benefit of the rival Teichert Construction company.
After a day and a half of deliberations, the U.S. District Court panel in Sacramento awarded $75 million in compensatory damages to Joe and Yvette Hardesty and $30 million to the Jay Schneider family.
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Pyrrhic victory
The county lacks the means to pay the judgement.
Coincidently, on the day the headlines claim lead poisoning of the Bay Area Children.....
The farmers in the central valley being run out of business because the abundant water was cut back to them. Meanwhile insiders buy up the cheap land and make a big profit when the train rolls thru.
>>The county lacks the means to pay the judgement.<<
Any entity that can tax can pay. In this case it would make sense to sell the judgement to a party that collects this kind of paper as a business. Those companies frequently then set up payments and then sell the now-secured debt to 3rd parties.
This kind of debt is probably not dischargable.
They’ll pay, just over time. The winners will see around 1/2 before taxes.
This is award is being appealed, so don’t get too excited.
If I were the “little guy” I wouldn’t quit the fight against these corrupt bastards.
Prision time for those decision makers, and possibly RICO?
Be a pain to own every gub mint property in the county.
or a GOPee, ...
I did some sales to Teichert’s asphalt biz many years ago.
Now that you have won take that gravel and go build The Wall.
the criminals in this case are some bureaucrats who will be collecting fat pensions.
and taxpayers get to pay the fine.
“Prision time for those decision makers, and possibly RICO?”
That’s the key to stopping this kind of stuff. Money simply fleeces the taxpayers. It needs to be put into law that in the case of a finding of guilt, incarceration will be mandatory. We must not let these criminal public employees foist their dirty deeds off on the taxpayers and walk off into the sunset.
The other part of these litigations is that they need to be short-lived and final. Judge Gorsuch hit on this very issue yesterday. Justice is too damned expensive for the average citizen so in effect, it is justice denied. Right now the government has essentially unlimited resources to keep you from winning forever. Ditto for these left wing organizations like the Sierra Club, ACLU, etc.
Lawyers on both sides are the only winners in lawsuits.
Yea, like the prosecutor in Baltimore in race baiting trail... her Uncle represented the defendent against the city and scored x-million/dollars.... If it is all in the family, I am sure she got her cut - I know her Uncle did not allow her to live off her city salary.
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