Three more former University of Louisville officials want foundation to pay their legal fees
Three former University of Louisville Foundation officials have filed a countersuit against the foundation, seeking to have it pay their legal fees in its own lawsuit against them over the management of its finances.
The lawsuit, filed this week in Franklin Circuit Court, states former Chief Financial Officers Michael Curtin and Jason Tomlinson and former board member Burt Deutsch "cannot afford what promises to be a lengthy and extremely expensive litigation" in the case brought by the foundation.
The trio are named along with former university President James Ramsey and his chief of staff, Kathleen Smith, in the foundation's suit, which was filed last month and claims the defendants cost the foundation's endowment millions of dollars. The law firm Stites & Harbison, which used to do work for the foundation, is also named as a defendant.
Ramsey made a similar request to avoid legal fees this month when he filed a motion in the foundation's case asking a judge to order the foundation to cover his defense. The judge has not yet ruled on that issue.
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