Messy lawsuit.
Messy Lawsuit: The City of Los Angeles - For the city, see Los Angeles, California.
The City of Los Angeles was a streamlined passenger train jointly operated by the Chicago and North Western Railway and the Union Pacific Railroad. was ordered by an L.A.
Superior Court judge to pay $6.6 million in legal fees--$5.4 million to
contractor Dillingham-Ray Wilson and $1.2 million to subcontractor
Chicago Bridge & Iron Co.--in conjunction with a seven-year court
battle regarding the expansion of the Hyperion sewage treatment plant The Hyperion Wastewater Treatment plant is located in southwest Los Angeles, California next to Dockweiler State Beach on Santa Monica Bay. The largest such facility in the Los Angeles Metropolitan Area, Hyperion is operated by the Los Angeles Department of Public Works, Bureau of near LAX. In the 1980s, the plant was accused of dumping millions of
pounds of sewage slush slush
n.
1. Partially melted snow or ice.
2. Soft mud; slop; mire.
3. Nautical Grease or fat discarded from a ship's galley.
4. A greasy compound used as a lubricant for machinery. into the Santa Monica Bay Santa Monica Bay is an arm of the Pacific Ocean in southern California, United States. Its boundaries are slightly ambiguous, but it is generally considered to be the part of the Pacific within an imaginary line drawn between Point Dume . Dillingham-Ray Wilson
had a $167.5 million contract to build a new system but complained that
designs changes and defective project plans cost the company millions in
delay and additional work. The company filed a lawsuit in 1999. In June
of this year, the jury found that the city owed the company $12.4
million. The city has already spent $10 million on its defense.
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