I know of these suits -
Karen Stranahan has filed b/c of the garbage tax.
http://www.trashtax.blogspot.com/
The Midwestern Retailers Association filed on April 4th:
http://ord-797-07.blogspot.com/2008/04/040408-press-release.html
The lawsuit filed by three employees of the Mayor after the Ohio civil rights commission said it probably was discriminatory practices that lead to their termination:
http://swampbubbles.com/3-ex-city-officials-sue-toledo-mayor-each-seek-1...
There was a lawsuit against the school district for refusing to provide public documents. I don't know what's happening with that -
But my question and many of you are very well plugged in - just how big of a liability are we facing with lawsuits and accruing legal fees?
How many lawsuits are out there against the city, council and our school district?
Just how big of a tab are we looking at? And it's up to us to pay it too.
There are Brown versus Board of Community Relations and Roe v. Wade Kapszukiewicz. Both might have significant impact.
Nicely played donwert. That'll look like a line drive in the box score tomorrow!
Pink,
All I know is that I've got to get some good fertilizer to get my sorry-ass lawn going again. It's looking like Brown v. Brown.
"Bringing an end to a defamation lawsuit he filed in January 2007, business owner Daryle Parr recently decided to accept the Carty Finkbeiner Administration’s offer of a $5,000 settlement payment. Law Director John Madigan said private attorneys hired by the mayor billed the city $882.27.
''We didn’t want to go to court,'' Mr. Madigan said. ''We thought the settlement was reasonable.''
http://thetoledojournal.com/news/Article/Article.asp?NewsID=86921&sID=4
"The initiative was formed as a result of the settlement of an 11-year-old lawsuit between the City of Toledo and the U.S. and Ohio Environmental Protection Agencies (EPA). In July 2002, voters in the City of Toledo overwhelmingly approved an ordinance that settled the lawsuit. That settlement requires the City to update its sewer and wastewater treatment facilities to stop the release of raw sewage into Swan Creek and the Ottawa and Maumee Rivers."
http://www.toledowaterwaysinitiative.com/
Midwest Retailers Association, Ltd. v. City of Toledo
http://dockets.justia.com/docket/court-ohndce/case_no-3:2008cv00851/case...
Plaintiffs, who are residents of the Cherrywood apartment complex in Toledo, Ohio and predominantly African-American (the "Cherrywood residents"), claim that the Ohio Department of Transportation ("ODOT"), its director Jerry Wray, and the City of Toledo discriminated against them on the basis of race in allocating sound barriers along highways in Toledo. The district court ruled that their claims were barred by the applicable two-year statutes of limitation, finding that the Cherrywood residents' cause of action had accrued in 1984 when ODOT approved a highway-construction plan that did not include sound barriers near Cherrywood.
2
http://bulk.resource.org/courts.gov/c/F3/172/172.F3d.934.98-3299.html
93 Ohio App.3d 507
Westgate Shopping Village
v.
Toledo
No. L-93-092
Court of Appeals of Ohio, County of Lucas
March 11, 1994
http://www.ahcuah.com/lawsuit/newsuit/ohio/westgate.htm
And there are others.
I hope we can afford it!