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Cornerstone Flooring Companies bought a North Baton Rouge office and warehouse building for $4.7 million and plans to move its headquarters there. ....
Expert witness fees add nearly $200K to cost of downtown library lawsuit Tuesday, May 11, 2021 An item that will be introduced at Wednesday’s Metro Council meeting dealing with the lawsuit over the downtown library helps illustrate why litigation is so costly. The parish attorney’s office and the library director are asking the council to approve a $195,000 increase to the contract of a Delaware engineering firm that has been serving as an expert adviser to the city-parish in the long-running legal drama. The contract for the structural engineering firm, Exponent Inc., was amended in 2018 from its original amount to $67,500. Now that the suit over construction problems with the library is proceeding to trial, the contract needs to be amended to cover the original expert’s reports and testimony through trial and to add an expert witness to testify as to total damages suffered by the library, documents submitted to the council show. ....
Lawsuit drags on three years after structural failure at downtown library site Wednesday, April 14, 2021 The new 48,316-square-foot River Center Branch Library overlooks North Boulevard Town Square in downtown Baton Rouge. The four-story structure has dedicated spaces for children, teens and adults. (Tim Mueller) This month marks three years since a structural failure caused by a faulty weld shut down construction on the since-completed downtown library, and it’s now nearly two-and-a-half years since the city-parish filed suit over the problem in 19th Judicial District Court. But the case shows no signs of wrapping up any time soon. According to a scheduling order issued by 19th Judicial District Court Judge William Morvant, parties in the case have until April 15, 2022 one year from now to complete all discovery, and a pretrial conference has been set for June 21, 2022. ....