US Nitrogen Suit Scheduled

By Walter F. Roche Jr.

A federal judge has set a Sept. 3 opening trial date in the suit filed by US Nitrogen LLC against the Georgia engineering firm hired to help design the company's ammonium nitrate manufacturing facility in Greene County Tennessee.
In a four-page order issued this week U.S. District Judge Michael L. Brown also set out a schedule for both sides to disclose witnesses and other pretrial matters.
US Nitrogen is suing Weatherly Inc, a Georgia engineering firm, charging that the company's faulty work caused extensive delays in the construction of the Midway plant. The suit charges major parts of the plant had to be re-built because of Weatherly's errors.
Brown has already ruled that US Nitrogen can only collect a maximum of $2.2 million and not the $30 million originally sought.
In a recent ruling he concluded that US Nitrogen can use the testimony of three experts despite Weatherly's objections.
In the latest order Brown set an Aug. 27 date for a final pre-trial session.
The trial will begin at 9 a.m. Sept. 3 in Brown's Atlanta courtroom.
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