Attorneys seek dismissal of class-action suit on use of water, wastewater money
YOUNGSTOWN — Attorneys for Youngstown are asking a judge to dismiss a class-action lawsuit filed by five city water customers who question the legality of using water and wastewater funds for economic development.
In a motion filed Monday, James F. Lang, one of two attorneys from the Cleveland-based Calfee, Halter & Griswold law firm retained by the city for this case, wrote the complaint “is utterly devoid of any factual support for the contention that the rates charged by the city were in any way illegal or improper.”
Lang asked Judge John M. Durkin of Mahoning County Common Pleas Court, assigned this case, to dismiss it. “Plaintiffs failed to provide any factual support or legal basis for their claims that the city was over-charging its customers for water and sewer utilities,” he wrote.
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