Determined to force Utzon to comply, Hughes withheld the fees from which the architect paid his staff.
A federal judge ruled yesterday that he would hold a hearing into whether the federal government pressured the accounting firm KPMG to withhold legal fees for former employees who were indicted in a case involving questionable tax shelters.
In her 35-page decision, Judge Aurigemma said Crossroads had been "unethical, oppressive and unscrupulous" in withholding legitimate fees from its two consultants, who had close ties to top state politicians.
The ruling was based on a 1988 Supreme Court ruling that said workers who opted out of a union at their workplace had the right to withhold any fees that would go to political activity or any other activity not germane to collective bargaining, administering a contract or handling grievances.
[C4.] French Company Withholds Fee SFR, one of France's largest wireless operators, is withholding its initial payment on a new mobile phone license in an attempt to press the government into renegotiating the fees.
Barclays may dispute this, but if Del Monte succeeds in withholding this fee, Barclays will pay $23.7 million and lose a $21.5 million fee.
The man, Steven Avery, 43, will receive a $400,000 settlement, up to 40percentt of which could be withheld for legal fees and costs, according to a stipulation filed in the Federal District Court in Milwaukee.
She refused to pay several, including one builder from whom she withheld $88,000 in fees on the grounds that he owed her $800,000 in "commissions" for work he had carried out on Helmsley hotels.
Madigan said no. Unfazed, Rauner ordered the fair share fees withheld from the unions anyway.
But the consultant who produced it, David Tulin, said that when he showed his report to school officials, the superintendent asked him to remove his conclusions describing the schools as "functionally segregated" and threatened to withhold his fee if he did not.
