Judge finds no evidence of contempt in Conway Corp. eminent domain case
“Gary Jiles, a Conway attorney representing Conway Corp, did not act in contempt of the state Supreme Court in an ongoing lawsuit over a water line easement, a judge acting as a specially appointed finder of fact in the matter has concluded.
According to findings of fact filed on Thursday, Jiles “at no time sought or obtained any Order to Pay” in defiance of a state Supreme Court ruling that struck down a Mike Maggio order.
Jiles and his associate attorney, Matthew Brown, were accused by Plaintiffs’ attorney Kent Walker of seeking to garnish the paychecks of two Faulkner County residents to pay Jiles’ attorney’s fees and costs for preparing for trial and prohibited them from making any further filings in the lawsuit until the cost was paid.
Walker asked for, and received, a continuation the day that the land condemnation case was supposed to go to trial. Maggio granted the continuation, but ordered the plaintiffs to pay more than $20,000 in fees and costs incurred in the three weeks Jiles and his firm prepared for the trial.”
Lamb, Joe. The Log Cabin Democrat 26 June 2014.