In July 2010, Corey Airport Services was awarded $17.5 million. The federal jury found that the City of Atlanta (Georgia), Clear Channel, and Barbara Fouch, Clear Channel's minority partner, conspired to deprive Corey Airport Services of its equal protection rights while bidding for the advertising contract at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport in year 2002.
The City of Atlanta, Clear Channel and Fouch will share the compensatory damages of $8.5 million equally. Clear Channel was assessed $8.5 million dollars in punitive damages. Fouch was assessed $500,000 in punitive damages.
The case, which was filed in 2004, concerned how the City of Atlanta procures contracts for advertising at the world's busiest airport. Clear Channel and Fouch were first awarded the contract in 1980. Until 1997, the contract stipulated that the City receive 50% of airport advertising revenues. The contract expired, but Clear Channel and Fouch maintained the advertising concession on a month-to-month basis from that point forward. Until 2007, they were paying the 1980 rental rate of 50% revenue.
At the start of trial, Clear Channel and Fouch owed the city $15.6 million in unpaid rental fees due to the month-to-month holdover provision of the advertising contract.
GREGORY CHANDLER, Attorney at Law
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