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Litigation

Mar. 24, 2012

Jury sides with real estate billionaire

After a two-week trial in a San Diego Superior Court that pit a prominent business leader and philanthropist against members of his own family, lawyers for real estate billionaire Ernest Rady on Wednesday secured a jury defense verdict.


By Sean Windle


Daily Journal Staff Writer


After a two-week trial in a San Diego Superior Court that pit a prominent business leader and philanthropist against members of his own family, lawyers for real estate billionaire Ernest Rady on Wednesday secured a jury defense verdict.


Eight members of Rady's family filed the suit in 2009 for $272 million, claiming he reneged on a contract to buy out their shares of American Assets, Inc. But juror...

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