A Second More Serious Look at the Hutt Lawsuit....

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City Attorney Les Merkley asks for plaintiff (Mike Hutt) to put up 24 million dollar bond...
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 Taking a second more serious look at Hutt's lawsuit filed against the City of Jeffersonville and the Redevelopment Commission.  People need to realize this for what it is.... a cheap, dirty, underhanded political trick and nothing more. The lawsuit itself probably isn't worth the paper it's written on. The suit may very well delay the projected hotel development on the parcels of land in question but ultimately Hutt and Wilder are pissing in the wind with their chances of winning such a suit.

   Our laws rightly or wrongly leave a broad and somewhat vague interpretation of how government can spend our tax dollars. If not city, state, and federal governments would be flooded with frivolous lawsuits like the one filled by Dumb and Dumber. We're not going to get into the morality or whether it's right or wrong for government to have this power to control our money, but you can imagine the gridlock of our court system with out this authority.

  Another thing that makes Hutt's lawsuit pretty much useless is the fact that the appraisal's especially of vacant land is very subjective and can vary widely. It is more or less what use a prospective buyer might have for a certain property, and what it's worth for him personally to obtain it. Hutt's logic and theory that because Starbuck's paid $250,000 for a 1/2 acre makes every acre in the parcel worth  $500,000 just doesn't hold water. The questioned property was open to bid the higher bid was accepted...what is the city to do....ask the 1/2 million an acre and have it just sit there growing weeds ? ....because that's exactly what will happen at Hutt's price.... it'll just sit there....You can see the lunacy of this lawsuit...

 It's no secret Hutt's bitterness toward the Moore administration whether he's just a stooge for an anti- Moore coalition I don't know... the BatBlog doesn't think  Hutt is smart enough to think this on his own. The only thing we can say for sure this is just good ole Jeffersonville/ Clark Co. political dirty tricks... nothing more.