The Florida Supreme Court has assigned the 5th District Court of Appeal in Daytona Beach to hear appeals in a squabble over an unpaid $357,000 bill for framed photos ordered for the new 1st District Court of Appeal building in Tallahassee.
Six interlocutory appeals have been filed in a heavily lawyered civil suit filed by Signature Gallery, a small Tallahassee business that contracted with Peter R. Brown Construction to frame and hang 369 historic photographs in the halls of the new courthouse.
Chief Judge Robert Benton asked the high court to send the cases to a panel of judges who do not have offices in the new courthouse.
Chief Financial Officer Jeff Atwater and his predecessor Alex Sink refused to pay the bill saying no money was appropriated by the Legislature that could legally be spent on photos. They have also questioned whether the photos should be considered art. Under state law expenditures for art cannot legally exceed $100,000 and the court has already spent about $150,000 on oil paintings and other framed photos for the grandiose courthouse building.
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What a tangled web we weave... All one has to look at is "who" owns these companies; and who they made campaign contributions, as well as who they paid consultants fees to. Shocking and disturbing, that these names are names and families of person's we voted for.
Posted by: Robert Jenkins | November 28, 2012 at 04:40 PM
The little firm in Tallahassee should have a claim against the big construction company for having misled it in contracting for things in amounts the law does not allow. The courts should spike this lawsuit and refer those two companies to civil court, against each other.
Posted by: whasup | November 29, 2012 at 04:39 AM