Surreal,

Good post. But Mesa effectively won as soon as they got injunctive relief. They are still on the job and still getting paid. By the time this decision comes down and Mesa appeals (if they lose) they can easily keep it going until the contract expires in 2012.

So the rest of the fight is about bragging rights and attorney's fees.

Seems like a huge blunder from the inception. The fact we're here documents that the contract was poorly written and it's administration so negligent that millions of dollars got out the door before anyone figured out there was a question. Then politics and the "flavor of the day" thinking drove an audit which had a presupposed outcome.

Based on rational economics, there never was a place for 750'ish RJ's to begin with.