I'm going to try to do this from memory so please keep that in mind. After the whole fraudlent eviction papers served by Mitchell's attorney to PBLS (the eviction papers that were never approved of by the court, the papers that the attorney pretty much invented) the judge decided to not hear anymore arguments pertaining to the case (or that aspect of the case) for what amounts to a total of 18 months. This is when Mitchell was fighting for a PBLS to cease operating the pit. The court ruled no but made PBLS put up a bond. Mitchell then moved to increase that bond to $20M. The court ruled against that "with prejudice" and to me, it seemed that the judge was getting fed up with the case. He appointed a special arbitrator and then basically told everyone to take a break. Keep in mind that this case has been going on for almost 5 years now in the courts. That was late 2006, so that would mean that Mitchell can't re-enter into those arguments again until middle of 2008. In the meantime, Mitchell moved for an inspection of the scale records at the pit claiming that PBLS wasn't accounting for all the materials moving out of the pit correctly. That, I believe, is what today's court session pertains to.
Again, all from memory so don't hold my feet to the fire if something is incorrect or if I mis-interpreted the court docs. I try to keep up with them as some posters who pop in here now and then try to blow up the court case into some huge ordeal that PBLS is destined to lose. The transcripts just don't back that up IMO as all the original arguments have been shot down...
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