AIRPORT AUTHORITY FILES SUIT : AGENCY SAYS BURBANK ILLEGALLY NIXED PLAN.Byline: Mary Beth Alexander Daily News Staff Writer The Burbank-Glendale-Pasadena Airport Authority filed a lawsuit Monday against the city of Burbank, claiming the City Council illegally rejected a terminal expansion plan. Council members gave the proposed expansion unfair consideration, because they already had decided against the plan when they reviewed it, according to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. the lawsuit, the second filed by the authority against the city regarding the proposal. ``In essence, the city had already made its mind up in advance,'' said Sean McCarthy, airport spokesman. ``It had already decided it would not approve it.'' Burbank City Manager Bud Ovrum said the authority's claims are untrue. ``We took great pains to make sure everything was done according to a reasonable process,'' Ovrum said. A federal lawsuit filed against the city by the Airport Authority in June, already is pending. That suit claims attempts by Burbank city leaders to halt the terminal expansion were unconstitutional. The second suit, filed in Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. County Superior Court in Burbank, challenges a vote taken by the City Council in October to officially reject the project, the lawsuit states. Authority attorney Richard Simon Richard Simon (May 13, 1638 - April 11, 1712), was a French biblical critic. He was born at Dieppe. His early education took place at the college of the Fathers of the Oratory. said the council took the vote based on a review of the project that was neither thorough nor fair. He said a second suit was necessary, because the Airport Authority was denied ``due process'' in violation of the state law. ``It's not the kind of issue a federal court normally would involve itself in,'' Simon said. Ovrum said he expected the second lawsuit. The Airport Authority is grasping grasping a similar equine neurosis to windsucking; the horse grasps a fixed object with its teeth, but does not swallow air. , he said, and willing to try anything to overrule The refusal by a judge to sustain an objection set forth by an attorney during a trial, such as an objection to a particular question posed to a witness. To make void, annul, supersede, or reject through a subsequent decision or action. the city. ``They're just trying to get a second bite at the apple,'' Ovrum said. ``We're not surprised by it at all.'' The city and Airport Authority, a nine-member group made of three representatives each from Burbank, Glendale and Pasadena, have been battling over the expansion plans for months. Under the plan, the authority would purchase around 130 acres from Lockheed Martin For the former company, see . Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) is a leading multinational aerospace manufacturer and advanced technology company formed in 1995 by the merger of Lockheed Corporation with Martin Marietta. Corp. for a new terminal, which would be three times the size of the existing one, and include five new gates. The existing terminal would be demolished de·mol·ish tr.v. de·mol·ished, de·mol·ish·ing, de·mol·ish·es 1. To tear down completely; raze. 2. To do away with completely; put an end to. 3. . |
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