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Article: Brothers claim courts favor big firms
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- Indianapolis Business Journal
- Article date:
- July 31, 2000
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There's no storybook ending for the Lafayette brothers who took on big business - and lost.
Now Paul and David Arlton are blaming the Indiana court system for their failure to recover what they estimate to be millions of dollars in lost profits.
The br thers fought until the bitter end, spending their parents' life savings and seven years attempting to convince the courts that a larger corporation had taken advantage of them. The courts failed to buy the argument. The State Supreme Court notified the men in June that it would not hear their appeal.
The Arltons' plight began in 1991 when they formed Lite Machines Corp., a manufacturer of radio-controlled model helicopters. The brothers had ...