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A preliminary hearing was held before Judge George Day in the case of Dynamic Collision vs. the City of Gadsden and the Gadsden Airport Authority. It focused on 16 subpoenas filed by the plaintiff who is challenging the proposed plant on GAA property on Steele Station Road, contending it would violate current zoning regulations against various city, airport and industrial development officials, Pilgrim s Pride itself and representatives of an engineering firm.
The subpoenas requested that the parties provide documents regarding communications between them and Pilgrim’s Pride to the court, and be present during a hearing scheduled for next Monday.
Pilgrim s Pride argued this would require them to also present documents involving the company s “trade secrets” and pertaining to technological designs and other equipment, setting up the potential for competitors to steal their ideas.
Attorney: Pilgrim s Pride soliciting bids for August construction start
Lawyers for Dynamic Collision filed a motion Thursday seeking an expedited ruling and hearing on a preliminary injunction request as part of a zoning challenge at the proposed site for a Pilgrim s Pride rendering plant.
Attorney Joshua Sullivan s motion asserts that a ruling is needed quickly because Pilgrim s Pride solicited bids for construction on the proposed plant, for a starting date in August.
Circuit Judge George Day responded quickly, setting a hearing for 2:30 p.m. May 10.
Day in his order setting the hearing said Dynamic Collision, the plaintiff, had sought a declaratory judgment and a permanent injunction something that should be entered, if needed, after a final hearing. The order says the court has taken the arguments under advisement and expects to make a ruling soon, along with other motions discussed in a hearing earlier this month.
Attorney Christie Knowles on Thursday in a social media post struck back at Gadsden Mayor Sherman Guyton s comments during Tuesday s City Council meeting.
Knowles said Guyton essentially accused her or her law firm of using a computer to steal confidential documents linked to a proposed Pilgrim s Pride rendering plant in Gadsden.
It s not true, she said in a Facebook post, and insisted the mayor knows that.
Guyton used the mayor/council comments time at the meeting to question where Knowles firm got what s been described as a Memorandum of Understanding from Guyton to Pilgrim s Pride.
City Attorney Lee Roberts, in response to Knowles post, denied that Guyton accused the attorney or her firm of theft, but repeated the mayor s question as to how she obtained what Roberts described as stolen documents.
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