Saturday, September 26, 2009

Federal Lawsuit Update 3

This past Thursday, the county filed a Motion to Dismiss against Phillip Rousseau, et al., for their second federal lawsuit seeking to stop the development of the Wegmans grocery store in Columbia and the Harris Teeter grocery store in Turf Valley.

“Plaintiffs’ effort to duplicate their meritless claims and to consume the valuable time and resources of the Court and the Defendants is transparent. Plaintiffs are not availing themselves of federal jurisdiction to redress a cognizable claim. Rather, this second federal case demonstrates that they are engaged in a course of vexatious, frivolous litigation designed to harass and intimidate public officials and to simply delay and obstruct any development with which they personally disagree.”

I couldn’t have said it better myself.