Appeal Filed

I wanted to give you all an update on our legal battle against the water harvesting project. Just to remind everyone, at the summer meeting last year we voted to file the initial paperwork and then we elected a law committee (Nat Dershowitz, Jim Frain, Howie McGowan, Brave Emma and myself) to review our position and decide whether to perfect that appeal and move forward. Gardner Gillespie and his firm Hogan & Hartson had graciously offered to take our appeal pro bono (of course we must pay expenses but their time has been donated). After the law committee reviewed our position, the decision was made to continue the appeal process. Gardner Gillespie and Paul Werner at Hogan & Hartson wrote an outstanding brief! The record was copied and last week our appeal was filed with the NY Third Department and all the parties have been served. Now we wait for the other parties to respond and then a court date will be set. Our lawyers will fly to Albany to argue the case in person probably sometime in April or May. I will update you as we continue.

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