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Pie-in-sky traffic and revenue forecasts for Australian tunnel pike hit with class action suits


2012-05-31: AECOM and possibly other companies are facing potentially costly class action law suits for pie-in-the-sky traffic and revenue forecasts they produced that were used to sell stock to investors in a failed Australian toll tunnelway.

Ex labor relations manager Don Kovac loses in US Court of Appeals against Penn Pike bigs


Donald Kovac labor relations manager at the Pennsylvania Turnpike April 2005 to Nov 2008 lost in US Court of Appeals this week. He was suing the Turnpike, former commission Mitchell Rubin, former chief operating officer George Hatalowich, Melvin Shelton and union secretary Mark Rowe, charging they conspired to have him dismissed for political reasons.

Fed Signal/Sirit say Neology patent suit "baseless" "frivolous" - will "vigorously defend"


Federal Signal Technologies Group (FSTech) president Manfred Rietsch says Neology's suit alleging violations of a patent on 6C sticker tag-reader system is "baseless" and "frivolous." FSTech's Sirit subsidiary, also sued, was one of just a small group of companies that developed the ISO 18000 6C standard, he notes, and contributed technology to the US RFID consortium, Sisvel, which established 6C as open standard.read more »

Federal Signal/Sirit sued for 6C sticker tag patent infringements by Neology


Federal Signal and its Sirit unit have been sued in US District Court by Neology over six alleged breaches of Neology 6C patents. The lawsuit was filed today in the US court in Delaware where both companies are registered.

The lawsuit demands that Federal Signal and related companies such as its subsidiary Sirit cease manufacturing, marketing and selling the ISO 18000 6C protocol RFID tags, readers and systems.

Ex-chief Paul Violette hit with racketeering lawsuit from his Maine Turnpike - over half million $s sought


Former chief executive (CEO) of the Maine Turnpike Authority Paul E Violette was today hit with a lawsuit demanding repayment of about half a million dollars it alleges that he cost them in alleged fraud and abuse between 2003 and 2011. Violette, a former Democrat Party politician was CEO at the state Turnpike from 1988 until March this year when he was forced to resign by a scandal unearthed by a legislative oversight agency.

Ambassador Bridge company proposal to settle protracted fight with state


The Ambassador Bridge company are set tomorrow to announce a set of moves they hope will open the way for them to settle their differences with Michigan DOT - differences that are threatening them with crippling fines and the jailing of their president, Dan Stamper.

Ambassador Bridge company not US Government - Judge


A US District Court judge  last week ruled that the privately owned Ambassador Bridge company DIBC "is not a federal instrumentality or limited federal instrumentality or any type of arm, appendage, or agent of the federal government entitled to any immunity from state or local regulation."

IBTTA, Jeff Campbell apparently settle (LITIGATION)


IBTTA and Jeff Campbell the association's head of research until last year have settled, we understand. Campbell sued the IBTTA for wrongful dismissal based on a 'whistleblower' complaint he made against CEO Pat Jones. In the first round of litigation IBTTA's move for dismissal of the case failed.

Neither IBTTA nor Campbell are commenting on a  settlement. The settlement probably includes a no-publicity clause.

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Metro Wash Airports control of Dulles TR challenged in big law suit - toll/tax distinction at issue


Under heavy criticism from all quarters for a $325m rail station undergrounding cost to be put on Dulles Toll Road motorists, the Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority (MWAA) is now being challenged in the courts over the legality of its use of tolls for the $6+ billion rail line.  Prominent Virginia attorneys Patrick McSweeney, Robert Cynkar, Christopher Kachouroff have sued MWAA on behalf of John Corr of Great Falls NA and John Grigsby, of Hillsboro

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