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December 17, 2014

Pact reached before trial starts for never-opened Vegas hotel

  • Jurors were told to prepare for a year-long trial over the flawed construction. Just a list of exhibits — not the exhibits themselves — filled 100 banker's boxes.
    • By KEN RITTER and KIM PIERCEALL
    Associated Press

    LAS VEGAS — A last-minute settlement avoided trial Tuesday in a massive civil breach-of-contract lawsuit involving casino giant MGM Resorts International and six of seven contractors on a never-opened Las Vegas Strip tower called the Harmon.

    Several jurors gasped when Clark County District Court Judge Elizabeth Gonzalez announced the parties reached an agreement that avoided a trial that lawyers for MGM Resorts and general contractor Tutor Perini Corp. had said could take a year or more.


     
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