CASINO BONGO

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03/19/2010 DEPT 21 - JUDGE CUTHBERTSON (Rm. 2-A ) Pre-Trial Mgmt Held
Confirmed 11:00 Pretrial Conference

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04/05/2010 DEPT 21 - JUDGE CUTHBERTSON (Rm. 2-A )
Confirmed 9:00 Trial

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Attended today but pretty much "much to do about nothing". At least to the non legal eye. At 11:20 Judge Cuthbertson called David Britton, attorney for the Town of Ruston, and Joan Mell, attorney for the Point Defiance Cafe and Casino into his private chambers leaving two attorneys pleading a discrimination case standing in front of the bench.
They all emerged at 11:45 and the two lawyers departed the courtroom. So: tax retaliatory, matters of law, void, procedures, effective date all put over until Monday March 22 when Judge Cuthbertson will contact attorneys involved and notify them of trial date, bench trial or jury trial. The trial is set now for April 5th but that may be moved.
You now know what I know which amounts to nothing new.
Stay tuned and I will try to update you on Monday if information is released to public.
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p.s. Town troubles with the UNICORN SPORTS BAR are brewing and we may be in for a rerun of the CASINO debacle. What's a million here a million there when you have COMMENCEMENT money to gamble with. I'm on it and will report to the end with PRRs already submitted more to come until I get to the bottom of who is behind this one.

The UNICORN case has the potential to run into the multi millions with treble damages. The Town has a five year history of harassment at the UNICORN and subsequently lost a $200 thousand dollar lawsuit settlement to a former Police Chief who was fired for disobeying an order from the Mayor. That order was to direct his officers to commit illegal acts against the UNICORN.

Defintion for BONGO: a variety of "interface widgets." Hope that clears it all up for you.

"Very interesting" as inspector Clousseau would say. Stay tuned.
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COUNCIL MEETING March 1 ,2010

Unable to attend. Here are Karen's notes from RUSTON HOME: (click below)
Council Meeting Notes: March 1, 2010

Town of Ruston officials:
Mayor, Bruce Hopkins
Council, Bradley Huson, Jim Hedrick, Deborah Kristovich, Lyle Hardin, Jane Hunt
Attorney, David Britton
Planner, Rob White
Clerk/Treasurer, Myriah Mesa
Fire Chief, Don Torbet
Police Chief, Jeremy Kunkel
Electrician, Mo Fesharaki
Engineer, Jerry Morissette
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