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Originally Posted by Advogado
The problem with those alternatives is that there is no way to duplicate the huge array of courses that have been offered by the LLLC. Its closure is tragic. I hope that it is not too late for the plaintiffs and Developer to reach an accord that results in the LLLC's remaining open.
To answer a question raised by another poster: The Villages Charter School (which runs the LLLC as part of its operation) is a nonprofit corporation, legally separate from the developer. However, it is controlled by the developer-- so it is really the developer who will be making the call about whether to close the LLLC or keep it open.
As to the developer: Although we refer to the developer as a "he", the developer is really an "it"-- a corporation called The Villages of Lake-Sumter, Inc. That corporation is part of a spaghetti-plate conglomeration of corporations controlled by the Morse family. If you have an appetite for complexity, you can find an ownership chart at corporationwiki.com.
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My experience with fights like this is limited but I doubt if any agreement between the parties to the lawsuit would happen now. I wish it would though for all the people involved.
My suggestions are just a stop gap until something even bigger and better than the Lifelong Learning College could be set up with the proper accommodations. What is "reasonable" accommodations seems to depend a great deal on what judge or jury you get. Would this be a matter for a judge or can a jury also decided something like this? I do have a JD but am trained as a Law Librarian not a lawyer.
I still do not see this as about the money but about the principles involved in the case. Unless that is the damages requested are ridiculous in proportion to the harm suffered. Then it is a group of lawyers looking to win the lottery. They just do not look like those kind of lawyers from what I can find about them on the Internet.