{"id":8425,"date":"2014-12-13T15:11:24","date_gmt":"2014-12-13T15:11:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forumarchives.tmsites.net\/index.php\/2014\/12\/13\/las-vegas-openings-set-in-trial-over-flawed-casino-in-vegas\/"},"modified":"2014-12-13T15:11:24","modified_gmt":"2014-12-13T15:11:24","slug":"las-vegas-openings-set-in-trial-over-flawed-casino-in-vegas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumarchives.tmsites.net\/index.php\/2014\/12\/13\/las-vegas-openings-set-in-trial-over-flawed-casino-in-vegas\/","title":{"rendered":"Las Vegas: Openings set in trial over flawed casino in Vegas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!-- Original Post Content --><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i59.tinypic.com\/2ikv1gy.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\n\tHarmon hotel being taken apart bit by bit. Developers did not want to demolish hotel via implosion.<\/p>\n<p>\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i58.tinypic.com\/ifudex.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\tLAS VEGAS (AP) \u2013 Lawyers for casino giant MGM Resorts International and contractor Tutor Perini Corp. are set to tell a jury the other is to blame for flaws at a never-opened Las Vegas Strip hotel tower that was to have been the centerpiece of the massive CityCenter complex on the Las Vegas Strip.<\/p>\n<p>\tJury selection took six weeks, and trial is expected to take at least a year after opening statements Thursday in Clark County District Court.<\/p>\n<p>\tWork on the Harmon Hotel tower work stopped halfway in 2008, after inspectors found that steel used on the first 26 stories wouldn\u2019t support the remaining 22 floors.<\/p>\n<p>\tWhile Perini, subcontractors and the casino company fought over who was to blame, the rest of the glitzy and glassy $8.5 billion development opened in 2009.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<h3>Replies:<\/h3>\n<div class=\"migrated-reply\" style=\"border: 1px solid #eee;padding: 15px;margin-bottom: 15px;border-radius: 5px\">\n<p><strong>Posted by:<\/strong> Dr Crapology on December 14, 2014, 11:19 pm<\/p>\n<div>What a mess and an additional waste of money and all the other expenses that go hand in hand with a law suit.  Guess the lawyers will win.  Will be interesting to see how it turns out.<\/p>\n<p>\tDoc<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Harmon hotel being taken apart bit by bit. Developers did not want to demolish hotel via implosion. LAS VEGAS (AP) \u2013 Lawyers for casino giant MGM Resorts International and contractor Tutor Perini Corp. are set to tell a jury the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8425","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-latest-casino-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumarchives.tmsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8425","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumarchives.tmsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumarchives.tmsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumarchives.tmsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/36"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumarchives.tmsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8425"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumarchives.tmsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8425\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumarchives.tmsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumarchives.tmsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumarchives.tmsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}