Greater Bay vs City of Lake Worth

Case ID:	502009CA039320XXXXMB
	Case Caption:	GREATER BAY GROUP LLC V CITY OF LAKE WORTH
	Division:	AI - SASSER
	Filing Date:	Monday , November 16th, 2009
	Court:	CA - CIRCUIT CIVIL
	Location:	MB - MAIN BRANCH
	Jury:	Y-Jury
	Type:	CD - CONTRACT & DEBT
	Status:	PE - PENDING

This case is "pending." No kidding. Law suits drag on and on and I honestly believe it is a lawyer's ploy. When will this case ever go to trial?

At the moment we have a new commission that doesn't have the will to win something winnable. As none of them can talk about law suits or even how they feel, my fear is they would rather give a flim flam man a settlement than continue to tell him to stick it. We had a former commission that allowed our city attorney at the time to get bamboozled with the threat of a lawsuit because of billboards. We ended up with half the promised money and now have blight for 20 years. The money? who in the hell knows at this point. It was moved here and there and promised for this and for that. Lawsuits put the fear into poor cities and all these smart attorneys out there know that as well as their smart clients who like to sue.

Greater Bay never performed per the RFP. Why do we even have a lawsuit? They were to provide their financing sources immediately after the contract was awarded. They were to provide information on their ability to perform this type of construction as well as their experiences. Of course, they could not do that. They had never performed this type of construction. All they ever did from inception was "spin" it and twist the facts around and tell us that it was our fault. Our only fault was signing that contract.

Grreater Bay's attorney is Damon Chase, one of the most prominent attorneys in Seminole County. His clients include Jim Greer, ousted chairman of the Florida GOP, and Rep. Chris Dorworth, the man slated to become Florida's House speaker in 2014.

Our attorney is Brian Joslyn of Ciklin, Casey who has built an active practice as a commercial trial lawyer, with special concentration in all aspects of real estate law and development, land use, partnership and corporate litigation, and governmental representation. In addition to acting as lead counsel in many dozens of trials and arbitrations, Mr. Joslyn has argued over 20 appeals before Florida District Courts of Appeal and successfully argued before the Florida Supreme Court in Bitterman v. Bitterman, 714 So.2d 356 (Fla 1993), in which the Supreme Court held, for the first time, that a trial judge has inherent authority to sanction “inequitable conduct” by litigants.

Rated AV by Martindale-Hubbell, he graduated summa cum laude with a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Central Florida and earned a Juris Doctor degree with honors from the University of Florida in 1981.

He is a member of the American and Palm Beach County Bar Associations, the Palm Beach County Justice Association, the Academy of Florida Trial Lawyers, the American Justice Association, the Trial Bar of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida and the American Board of Trial Advocates. Mr. Joslyn was appointed several years ago by the Palm Beach County Bar Association to the Palm Beach County Environmental Appeal Board.