Icon Benefit Administrators & AAG drop lawsuit against individual City of Lubbock officials but, officials appear to want suit to continue!
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On 24 May, Icon/AAG, frequently referred to as the Ted Parker companies, filed a motion in Dallas County Court at Law #2 to drop its lawsuit against several City of Lubbock employees and former officials including the city manager and a former mayor.

On 25 May, the court granted the Motion for Non-Suit without Prejudice, or dismissal. However on 2 June, the defendants filed a motion to compel additional depositions to "prepare their defenses" for a lawsuit which no longer exists!

Here are the key documents:

• Plaintiff's Motion for Non-Suit without Prejudice (dismissal/dropping of the suit) filed 5/24/2010

• Plaintiff's Motion for Summary Judgment filed 5/24/2010 - not important to this story but full of information

• Order granting plaintiff's Motion for Non-Suit without Prejudice singed on 5/25/2010 by the judge

• Defendants Motion for Court Intervention to Compel dates for depositions filed on 6/2/2010 to "prepare their defenses" for a suit which was dismissed on May 25th!

• Summary letter from plaintiff's law firm to Pratt on Texas after my requesting information on the matter.

Icon/AAG has new executive leadership which does not wish to continue dealing with small-time irritants in Lubbock, Texas, former company-head Ted Parker's hometown, and has decided to simply drop the matter. But the defendants in Lubbock, having their lawyers and deposition trips paid for by taxpayers, have asked the court to compel more depositions to prepare their defense for a case which as been dismissed.

I know what I think about these lawyers and former defendants. You figure it out and come to your own conclusions.

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