Letter: Filing suit often only way to right a wrong nowadays

Del Papa states the contractual remedies outlined in NRS 281.577 -- voiding the present contracts -- would not be in the public interest because of potential liability. In short, the present concession leasees would sue. Accordingly, this aspect of the matter is closed: No contracts will be voided.

However, this principle works for the rejected applicants as well. Therefore, I encourage them to sue. This is the only viable option now left for the aggrieved concession applicants who were illegally passed over and denied a concession.

Seek an attorney -- Las Vegas has some of the best in the country. And sue the County Commission, Commissioners Gates and Malone, airport master concessionaire and others who ran the program at McCarran.

Concerned citizens such as Robert Rose, whose charges brought about the ethics hearing expose of this scandal, and others have done their part. The rest is up to the aggrieved, rejected concession applicants.

I reiterate, there's a "new paradigm" in Clark County. To wit: If the aggrieved, the victims, the "shafted" don't fight for their rights and lost monies in the courts, then they deserve exactly what they get -- nothing.

I aver, litigation to rectify a wrong and to obtain justice is meritorious and praiseworthy. The lawsuit is the message.

Clyde Dinkins

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