Foxmeister

That's a good question Lisa. I'd like to know the answer to that as well.

I remember the 60's. We didn't have to worry about locking our doors. It wasn't necessary to put a kid's picture on a milk carton because child abductions were rare. We addressed adults as Ma'am or Sir. We called our friends' parents and our parents' friends as Mr. or Mrs. (last name). If we talked back to our parents, we were punished. We didn't misbehave in public places or we'd get smacked on the butt. Parents didn't have to worry about being criminally charged for spanking their kids. Yes, there is a difference between a spanking and abuse. Our school dances were held in the gym a

Didn't you at one time make a request to rezone your land to light industrial or something similar?

There's no way the land, trees, azaleas, and wild flowers are worth that much money. Didn't you request once for your property to be rezoned for light industrial?

How did you come up with a value of $1.5 million dollars? I believe you said it was a 10' strip of land that was involved. The land couldn't have possibly been worth that much.

You answered as I thought you would. Now my next question is this. What if I'm suing the county, but the county is not wrong. Are you saying they should just settle with me anyway to save the money it would cost to defend the suit? If they did that, more people would most likely file suits against the county so they could get a settlement. Once again, we don't know the merits the county has filed in this suit. For that matter, we don't even know if the county is guilty of anything. The builders in this case may be the guilty ones. Too many people are making assumptions Whitey withou

When you filed your suit, how much money were you seeking?

It all depends on the merits of their case Whitey. Let me ask you something. Follow me for a moment if you will. Let's say I filed a lawsuit against the county and in that suit I was asking for $5 million plus attorney fees. Now let's say this suit is going to cost the county $1 million to defend. Do you think the county should just say, "to heck with it, lets offer him $500,000 plus attorney fees and be done with it," to save money?

There you go again making an assumption I have time to do a search and go through all the posts. I believe in working smarter not harder; and that was to ask the questions I did. If you want to continue with the insults, please go right ahead.

Aren't you making the assumption it's the fault of the BoC this hasn't gone to trial yet? As Lisa and I both pointed out, the judge can set a trial date and both sides would have to show up.

That's not unusual at all Blue. My question is this; why doesn't the judge assigned to this case just say "enough is enough" and order it to trial? I wouldn't put the entire blame of the delay on the BoC.

Do you read every single post thats made on pcom? I certainly don't. I read only those where the title seems interesting or someone recommends a post. I asked some questions because I didn't know the answers, yet you and others are mocking me for that? Give me a break. I point out the obvious that not any of us knows the entire truth about this case, only what surepip tells us and I'm a fool because I haven't taken a side one way or the other on how this case should be decided. I point out the fact that it's not uncommon at all for lawsuits to even get to court. I also point out that a

I agree Lisa. It's amazing how many people here have already determined the county is guilty and they don't know the merits of the county's defense in the suit. They're basing judgement solely on what surepip is saying.

You crack me up Johnny. I'm sarcastic because I'm asking legitimate questions to get information and pointing out the fact that none of us reading this forum knows the entire truth in this case. That's rich!

Actually, it's not unusual at all. It happens all the time in this country. Sometimes it's because the plaintiff is asking for an exorbitant amount of money. I had a friend of mine sue the Michigan State Police and the State of Michigan for reverse discrimination. It took five years before the judge finally ordered the case to trial. The jury awarded him $800K as well as attorney fees in 2001. He still hasn't received his money because the state keeps tying it up in the State Court of Appeals. Nope, it's not uncommon at all.

I'm running my mouth by pointing out we haven't heard both sides to this case? I'm running my mouth because I said we don't know the whole truth about this matter? I'm running my mouth because I asked what previous settlement offers were made? I'm running my mouth because I asked what monetary amount surepip was asking for when he filed his lawsuit? Who is defending the actions of the board for this lawsuit being dragged out? All I'm doing is asking questions and pointing out one obvious pertinent fact that none of us here knows the entire truth in this matter. Flame on if you want.

I have no interest in either side. I mostly spend my time at the political forum when I'm on pcom. Somebody sent me an email about this topic, so I thought I would check it out.

I totally understand that. The only reason the county should settle is if they felt they would lose the case in court. Like you said, settling a case they could have won, could set a very costly precedent for zoning issues. As I have said several times now, we have not heard both sides of the story and we don't know the whole truth in this case. For all we know, it's not just the lawyers for the county who have prevented this case from going to court. We only know what surepip wants us to know.

If I knew the answer to that, there wouldn't have been a need to ask the question then, DUH! You want to mock me because I haven't followed surepip's posts on this suit closely since he filed it? If you know the answer to my question, then why not just give the answer instead of making a sarcastic comment?

How many times has a judge ruled in his favor? I have seen civil suits before where the judge had ordered a trial when they tired of all the motions to delay and a settlement couldn't be reached. Why hasn't a judge just set a trial date on this?

I'm not going to go back and search several years of posts to find this information when he can simply answer the question I asked.

The BoC cannot discuss this case in a public domain. Let me ask you this question, but let me state first what I'm saying is purely hypothetical. Let's say the county rezoned some land for a builder to construct a PRD. Let's say it encroached on another person's land and the value of the land encroached upon was worth only $10,000. The owner files suit against the county and is seeking a monetary value of $5 million plus legal fees. Now let's say the county made a settlement offer of $10,000 plus legal fees and the plaintiff refused and made a counteroffer of $2 million dollars. Later, t

It depends. I have no idea what monetary amount he is seeking nor do I know what monetary amount he made as a counter offer to any of the county's settlement offers. As I said before, we don't know the whole truth because we haven't heard every detail in this case. How much money is surepip seeking as a monetary award in his suit? Has he ever told us the amount of the settlement offers the county has made to him? That information would be very helpful in determining if what the county has paid in legal fees is justified or not. If he was seeking less than what the county has spent on leg

There's always two sides of the story and we haven't heard the county's side of it. We most likely won't because it would be foolish for the county to address the issues publicly while the suit is active. How does anyone know for sure that everything surepip tells us why this suit came about is the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth? Like I said, there are two sides to every story. It would be foolish for anyone to determine who is right and who is wrong in this suit based upon hearing only one side of the story. The county has every right to appeal a judge's decision; the

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