8 minutes ago • CARA SPOTO
cara.spoto@journaltimes.com
"RACINE — Seven
former minority tavern owners will share a $1.3 million payout with
their attorneys in a settlement agreement in the city bars lawsuit
approved Tuesday night by the City Council.
"The agreement calls for the city’s liability insurer, the Cities and Villages Municipal Insurance Company or CIVMIC, to pay each plaintiff in the suit $15,000, giving the remaining $1,275,000 to their attorneys: the firms of Kohler & Hart, S.C. and Segal McCambridge Singer & Mahoney, LTD.
"The settlement agreement marks the end of the high-profile 18-month legal battle between the city and former bar owners, requiring the plaintiffs to release and dismiss all claims and allowing the city and other defendants to continue to deny wrongdoing.
"The plaintiffs in the lawsuit first sued the city in February 2014 in the Federal District Court for the Eastern District of Wisconsin in Milwaukee, accusing Mayor John Dickert and more than 15 other defendants of engaging in an elaborate plot to drive minority bar owners out of the city.
"Aldermen — bound by an agreement not to discuss the details of the settlement until after the council took action — did not make any comments before voting 10-2 to approve the deal.
"Alderman Sandy Weidner and former defendant in the suit, Alderman Jeff Coe, voted against approving the deal. Most of the aldermen present for the vote Tuesday, including Weidner and Coe, had attended a closed-door Executive Committee meeting on Monday in which they were informed of the details of the agreement.
"Aldermen Q.A. Shakoor, II and Steve Smetana were excused from the meeting and not present for the vote. Alderman Dennis Wiser served as the chairman of the meeting and did not vote.
"Details of the agreement were released to the media following the vote, but the actual agreement was not made available.
"Dickert was not present during the meeting, but said in a statement issued just after the vote that he was pleased that the matter was resolved despite his belief that the city would prevail at trial.
"'This case was a nuisance to the city and it is good to have it concluded,' the statement read. 'Now it is time get back to growing our city and continuing to build unity among all of our citizens.'
"When asked where Dickert was, City Administrator Tom Friedel said they mayor was attending a conference in Wausau.
"Attempts to reach attorneys for the plaintiffs in the case were unsuccessful Tuesday.
"According to the city press release detailing aspects of the settlement agreement, the plaintiffs’ attorneys incurred approximately $7.2 million in fees and costs."
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Party on, lying John!
"The agreement calls for the city’s liability insurer, the Cities and Villages Municipal Insurance Company or CIVMIC, to pay each plaintiff in the suit $15,000, giving the remaining $1,275,000 to their attorneys: the firms of Kohler & Hart, S.C. and Segal McCambridge Singer & Mahoney, LTD.
"The settlement agreement marks the end of the high-profile 18-month legal battle between the city and former bar owners, requiring the plaintiffs to release and dismiss all claims and allowing the city and other defendants to continue to deny wrongdoing.
"The plaintiffs in the lawsuit first sued the city in February 2014 in the Federal District Court for the Eastern District of Wisconsin in Milwaukee, accusing Mayor John Dickert and more than 15 other defendants of engaging in an elaborate plot to drive minority bar owners out of the city.
"Aldermen — bound by an agreement not to discuss the details of the settlement until after the council took action — did not make any comments before voting 10-2 to approve the deal.
"Alderman Sandy Weidner and former defendant in the suit, Alderman Jeff Coe, voted against approving the deal. Most of the aldermen present for the vote Tuesday, including Weidner and Coe, had attended a closed-door Executive Committee meeting on Monday in which they were informed of the details of the agreement.
"Aldermen Q.A. Shakoor, II and Steve Smetana were excused from the meeting and not present for the vote. Alderman Dennis Wiser served as the chairman of the meeting and did not vote.
"Details of the agreement were released to the media following the vote, but the actual agreement was not made available.
"Dickert was not present during the meeting, but said in a statement issued just after the vote that he was pleased that the matter was resolved despite his belief that the city would prevail at trial.
"'This case was a nuisance to the city and it is good to have it concluded,' the statement read. 'Now it is time get back to growing our city and continuing to build unity among all of our citizens.'
"When asked where Dickert was, City Administrator Tom Friedel said they mayor was attending a conference in Wausau.
"Attempts to reach attorneys for the plaintiffs in the case were unsuccessful Tuesday.
"According to the city press release detailing aspects of the settlement agreement, the plaintiffs’ attorneys incurred approximately $7.2 million in fees and costs."
Read more: http://journaltimes.com/news/local/million-deal-reached-in-bars-lawsuit/article_0f1ea720-3c41-5f35-bf86-12d22709044d.html
Party on, lying John!
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Don't you guys try to cut me out of a share. I pimped Pattern or Practice every chance I could. C'mon, throw a guy a bone.
From the Case:
From PACER:
Plaintiffs, by and through their attorneys, Kohler and Hart, S.C. and Segal McCambridge Singer & Mahoney, Ltd., and Defendants, by and through their attorneys, Meissner, Tierney, Fisher & Nichols, S.C., hereby jointly request that this Court grant the parties’ stipulation to extend the Court’s September 2, 2015 briefing schedule to allow Defendants to file any replies to Plaintiffs’ responses by October 12, 2015.
1. In the Trial Scheduling Order dated September 26, 2014, the Court directed the parties to make a good faith effort toward settlement of the case in its entirety.
2. On Friday, October 2, 2015, the parties participated in a further mediation of the case and reached a settlement in principle which is subject to approval by the individual Plaintiffs, individual Defendants and the Common Council of the City of Racine.
3. The parties request a one week extension of the current briefing schedule to obtain the necessary approvals for the proposed settlement…
7. In an effort to avoid unnecessary work, and to give the parties adequate time to obtain the necessary approvals for the proposed settlement, the parties request that the Court approve the attached stipulation agreeing extend the following deadlines to October 12, 2015: (i) Defendants’ deadline to file any reply to the Plaintiffs’ Response in Opposition to the Defendants’ Motion for Summary Judgment; (ii) Defendants’ deadline to file any reply to the Plaintiffs’ Response to the Defendants’ Motion in limine To Exclude the Expert Testimony and Reports of Drs. Roussell and Gallagher; and (iii) any deadline the Plaintiffs may currently have to respond to any pending motion which is currently due on or before October 12, 2015.
SO... A settlement, which is at best insulting to the Plaintiffs has beef offered - and Mayor John Dickert - in his Press Release has once again been derogatory instead of conciliatory - and has claimed that they will take what he has offered and be satisfied.... WHAT A POMPOUS MULE!
I disagree - and proffer that the offered settlement is a SLAP IN THE FACE to the Plaintiffs - it will be REJECTED! and it will go to trial!
3 questions - and three questions only to Mayor John Dickert, when UNDER OATH:
1. Name the Embezzler you claimed to have fired.
2. Provide a copy of the the tape you claim to have of Alderman Sandy Wagner speaking to others in a manner which displeased yourself, the Mayor.
3. Evidence the statutory authority which allows a Wisconsin Mayor to issue an "Executive Order".
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