{"id":8,"date":"2015-01-23T22:38:03","date_gmt":"2015-01-23T22:38:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/2015.bknlawyers.com\/?p=8"},"modified":"2024-05-31T02:22:12","modified_gmt":"2024-05-31T02:22:12","slug":"unanimous-jury-awards-128-6-million-verdict-for-contract-dispute-over-kings-county-property","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bknlawyers.com\/?p=8","title":{"rendered":"Unanimous jury awards $128.6 million verdict for contract dispute over Kings County property"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Baker, Keener &#038; Nahra represented the plaintiff land developers in this contract dispute over approximately thirty-four square miles of agricultural land and its associated water rights. \u00a0Plaintiffs contended that they entered into a contract to purchase the property but before the deal could be closed, defendant McCarthy Family Farms breached the contract and Sandridge interfered with the contract. \u00a0On March 31, 2014, after a two month trial up in Kings County, the jury unanimously agreed and ordered defendants to pay $73.4 million in compensatory damages and $55.21 million in punitive damages, for a total of award of $128.6 million. \u00a0Phil Baker, a partner with Baker, Keener &#038; Nahra and lead trial attorney for this matter, said of the case: &#8220;The need and greed involving water will compel people to ignore a contract or interfere with the contractual rights of others. \u00a0This jury righted those wrongs.&#8221; \u00a0The $128.6 million verdict is the largest California verdicts so far in 2014 and is one of the largest verdicts to-date for Kings County.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Baker, Keener &#038; Nahra represented the plaintiff land developers in this contract dispute over approximately thirty-four square miles of agricultural land and its associated water rights. \u00a0Plaintiffs contended that they entered into a contract to purchase the property but before the deal could be closed, defendant McCarthy Family Farms breached the contract and Sandridge interfered [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1372,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bknlawyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bknlawyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bknlawyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bknlawyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bknlawyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/bknlawyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":396,"href":"https:\/\/bknlawyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8\/revisions\/396"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bknlawyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1372"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bknlawyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bknlawyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bknlawyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}