tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5760374225734237436.post-68857069881040804712008-05-20T19:47:00.000-07:002008-06-05T16:16:30.109-07:002008-06-05T16:16:30.109-07:00<div align="center"><strong><span style="color:#333300;">I am SHOCKED !!!Did You Hear, it’s Official </span></strong></div><div align="center"><strong><span style="color:#333300;">Lincoln County PICKS Big Corporations over YOUR RIGHTS.</span></strong> </div><div align="center"><br /><span style="font-size:130%;color:#660000;"><strong>The Wilderness Club WINS !!!</strong></span></div><div align="center"></div><div align="center">Apparantley, Judge Michael Prezeau ruled that instead of ONE MILLION DOLLARS in punitive damages, the WILDERNESS CLUB has to pay ONLY $25,000. </div><div align="center"></div><div align="center"></div><div align="center"></div><div align="center"><span style="color:#000000;"><strong>What do You Folks think of this?</strong></span></div><div align="center"><strong></strong> </div><div align="center"><span style="color:#000000;"><strong></strong></span></div><div align="center"><span style="color:#000000;"><strong>This Does Not Seem Right to Me.</strong></span> </div><div align="center"> </div><div align="center"></div><div align="center"></div><div align="center"></div><div align="center">You ALL should LEAVE Lincoln County, BIG corporation, even, FOREIGN owned corporations can COME into YOUR neighborhood and Do what they want. NO BIG DEAL.</div><div align="center"> </div><div align="center"></div><div align="center"></div><div align="center">Will this Decision create a Public OutCRY or will the Residence of Lincoln County, as usual, hide safely in their own homes and NOT stick up for their neighbors. </div><div align="center"> </div><div align="center"></div><div align="center"></div><div align="center"></div><div align="center">THIS is WRONG.. you WILL be wronged next. It does not matter what your covenants are in your neighborhood, a Wilderness Club Type can come in and do what they want. </div><div align="center"></div><div align="center">They VIOLATED a court order to STOP building and NOTHING made them STOP, they are Seriously Above the Law. But YOU are NOT.Trial By Jury, WHY ? if the decision is in no way final than why bother.What Good is a Trial if a Judge can Say, oh Nevermind. </div><div align="center"> </div><div align="center"></div><div align="center"></div><div align="center"></div><div align="center">The Wilderness Club Was TOLD to STOP working on the building, nothing happened to them. </div><div align="center"></div><div align="center">They kept building on it, they got to keep their building. </div><div align="center"> </div><div align="center"></div><div align="center"></div><div align="center"></div><div align="center">A Jury awarded them Punitive damages but apparantley their life is only worth $25,000 . </div><div align="center"></div><div align="center">Why have a jury if a Judge can say, well no that is excessive. </div><div align="center"><br />Shocked is an UNDERSTATEMENT.</div><div align="center"> </div><div align="center"></div><div align="center"></div><div align="center"></div><div align="center"></div><div align="center"><span style="color:#000066;"><strong>Whats YOUR Life Worth ?</strong></span></div><div align="center"><strong><span style="color:#000066;"></span></strong> </div><div align="center"><strong><span style="color:#000066;"></span></strong> </div><div align="center"></div><div align="center"></div><div align="center"></div><div align="center"></div><div align="center">Will This Go to the Montana Supreme Court ?</div><div align="center"></div><div align="center"></div><div align="center">Eureka attorney Amy Guth, representing the McKays, said the couple has filed a motion asking Prezeau to reconsider his decision."The Montana Supreme Court has been pretty stern in reductions of punitive damage awards when they are given by a jury," she said. "(But) that doesn't mean in this case they won't say the judge was right and the jury was wrong."</div><div align="center"></div><div align="center">Guth said the McKays also have filed a motion with the high court to stop Wilderness Development from further impacting their property.</div><div align="center"> </div><div align="center"></div><div align="center"></div><div align="center"></div><div align="center">Whitefish attorney Sean Frampton, representing the developer, said he believes Prezeau made the right decision in lowering the punitive damages.He had argued that state law prohibits jurors from awarding punitive damages based on covenant claims, and the only "tort," or civil wrong, the jury thought the developer had committed was cutting down trees.</div><div align="center"> </div><div align="center"></div><div align="center"></div><div align="center">The McKays lost more than TREES, they were in CONSTANT stress, loud noise, dust, harassment, their horses had bright lights on them all the time, generators ran 24 hours, traffic was horrific, they LOST everything they worked for and Frampton says that the only “tort” was cutting down trees. </div><div align="center"> </div><div align="center"></div><div align="center"></div><div align="center"></div><div align="center">BULL….In May 2007, Wilderness Development cleared out trees on the McKays' property and cut a road across their land leading to a maintenance facility for the club.</div><div align="center"> </div><div align="center"></div><div align="center">Guth asked that the work be stopped, and Prezeau issued a temporary injunction against the developer in July. </div><div align="center"><br />A month later, Wilderness Development cleared more trees and poured the foundation for the 14,000-square-foot maintenance building, court records said.</div><div align="center"><br />ABOVE THE LAW ? You Decide !!!</div><div align="center"><br />The McKays went back to court in early fall and asked Prezeau to stop the construction project. The judge said the developers could do what was needed to protect what they had already built.The developers then finished the building, which was "well out of sight of the Wilderness Club homes, but right in the face of the McKays," Guth has said.In March, Prezeau ruled that the Wilderness Club had violated the subdivision's covenants and set a trial so a jury could determine damages.</div><div align="center"> </div><div align="center"></div><div align="center"></div><div align="center"></div><div align="center">On April 4, the jury awarded the McKays $350,000 for the value of the property and another $6,500 for the value of the trees cut. Jurors also found Wilderness Development had acted with "malice" and ordered $1 million in punitive damages.Now this Has ALL Changed.<br />Start Asking Questions Folks. Lincoln County NEEDSBig Corporation for Big Tax Dollars.You Lose !!!</div><br /><div align="center">Why Does Mr. FRAMPTON get to Decide what the McKays Life is Worth?<br />I Respectfully ask "Does Mr. Frampton have more Balls and More Backbone than<br />than Ms. Guth" Is this part of the problem.</div><div align="center"></div><div align="center"></div><div align="center"></div><div align="center"></div><div align="center"></div><div align="center"></div>SavvyBroker.comwebmaster@northwestmontana.com