Nevada County Settles Gregory Diaz Lawsuit for $1.9 million

Nevada County officials announced Tuesday that they settled with Auburn software firm AtPac for $1.9 million in its lawsuit against the County and Gregory Diaz.

"Insurance is expected to cover all but $100,000 of the cost, according to a document filed by County CEO Rick Haffey and Assistant CEO Laura Matteson. The remaining funds will come from the county's budget."

"AtPac provided software to the county's Clerk-Recorder office through 2008, when it lost its contract to Florida-based Aptitude Solutions. In February 2010, lawyers for AtPac filed suit against Aptitude, the county and Clerk-Recorder Gregory Diaz, claiming the county infringed on AtPac's copyright in the switch over from AtPac to Aptitude and that AtPac's trade secrets were exposed to Aptitude, a competitor."

Earlier in the case and according to Mike Jamison, AtPac offered to settle the matter for $1 million.

The rest of The Union story is here.

Now, Jamison is spinning the amount of fees and played The Union. Today's article is here. Jamison (who recently resigned) released a statement stating that litigation was going to cost the County $1.75 million. Is he lying?! According to the facts he gave The Union...

Cypress total bill was $725,000 of which...
The County paid Cypress $507,500
Aptitude paid Cypress $217,500

According to Jamison, Pillsbury fees were being split by Aptitude and the County...

Where in the world does Jamison get $1.75 million in fees to the County?!

$507,500 to Cypress from the County...then Pillbury was going to get $2.5 million to go to trial ($1.25 million for the county and $1.25 million from Aptitude)???

Trial is set for December 13th.

If the total legal fees from now until trial are projected at $2.5 million - that is about 33 attorney hours per day at $500 an hour for every day (including weekends) from now until trial. That is about 6 attorneys working non-stop for five months on only this case. Yeah right.

They have been litigating this for a year and a half. Up until now they have been spending about $47,000 per month...but Jamison says that they were going to spend nearly that much every three days until December? Please...that dog don't hunt.

Now, we know why Jamison resigned and shows that The Union needs to dig a little deeper instead of taking the County's public statements as fact...