TED NUGENT Gears Up For Summer Concert Lawsuit

March 19, 2005

Randy Rogoski of The Muskegon Chronicle has issued the following report:

Ted Nugent came to town Friday to consider settling his lawsuit against the Muskegon Summer Celebration committee for canceling his June 2003 concert.

He'll be back.

Muskegon will have its first celebrity trial beginning 9:30 a.m. Tuesday (March 22) in the courtroom of 14th Circuit Judge Timothy G. Hicks.

"I'll see y'all Tuesday," the famed rock star said as he was escorted by sheriff's deputies and attorneys from the judge's chambers shortly after 1 p.m. He stopped briefly for a photo opportunity with waiting fans and a brief interview with Grand Rapids television stations.

"We tried to settle and we were unsuccessful," said Hicks in his chambers after the pretrial settlement conference between the parties to the lawsuit and their attorneys.

The Michael J. Kobza Hall of Justice was abuzz Friday, from the moment the "Motor City Madman" arrived and the whole time he was on the sixth floor.

It was unusual for the normally staid judicial chambers, to say the least. "Nobody ever came to a settlement conference before," said Sue Patelski, Hicks' legal secretary.

There was a steady stream of county elected officials, courthouse workers and fans who wedged into the judge's chambers for photos with "The Nuge." He made time for his admirers while waiting for the judge to finish a trial session.

Longtime fan Paul Hibbard, 35, emerged from the office with his empty gun case autographed "Ted Nugent '05." He had a photo on his camera of himself with Nugent. He said he left the gun at home.

"I've seen his act two or three times," Hibbard said.

Kathy Schotts, a court reporter who works on the sixth floor, emerged from the office with Nugent autographs for her husband and son.

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