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Court-Ordered Mediation Remains Unscheduled

DALLAS-August will pass without LaSalle Hotel Properties and Le Meridien sitting down at the conference table, as ordered by the Dallas courts. Conflicts on both sides delay talks as they jockey for a mutually acceptable date.

By Connie Gore | Updated on August 28, 2002

DALLAS-The Dallas-Fort Worth feud, akin to the Hatfields and McCoys, has yet to schedule a mediation date. LaSalle Hotel Properties and Le Meridien were to have sat down to talk this month, but scheduling conflicts on both sides have pushed the confab into September.

The corporations were ordered to mediate a contract termination that puts Le Meridien on the streets after being the sole operator of the 22-year-old, 407-room hotel in Dallas’ Plaza of the Americas. LaSalle has won its case twice in court, but under the system is now forced to mediate the dispute. If the two can’t reach an agreement, the case goes back to court and a final ruling.

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