Flannery Associates enjoys a win in court

Despite the ongoing local hostility, the California Project enjoyed a nice win relative to its legal battle with local ranchers. A California judge, Troy Nunley, recently sided with the development project, denying an effort by local landowners to get California Forever’s litigation thrown out of court. Nunley claimed that messages exchanged between property owners two years ago provided “direct evidence” of a price-fixing effort. Those messages include text messages from one landowner to another saying that they shouldn’t allow California Forever developers to engage in “bullying the last of the property owners.” The same landowner also asserted that the “remaining property owners should be in agreement on what we would want to sell our properties” so that California would be unable to “play owners against owners.” Read More