Matty Moroun never walks away from a fight, so his latest legal maneuver -- reported by Todd Spangler of the Free Press bureau in Washington, D.C. -- is right in character.
The owner of the Ambassador Bridge has filed a lawsuit against a number of federal officials -- the U.S. secretaries of state, transportation and homeland security among them -- and the Canadian government as the company tries to block the building of a rival Detroit River bridge, and force approval for its own second span to Windsor. . . .
The Detroit International Bridge Co. . . . claims a "perpetual and exclusive franchise right" to operate the crossing free of competition from another span. It says the proposed New International Trade Crossing would "destroy" the value of its franchise, and argues that the process by which the State Department would approve a deal between Michigan and Canada to build the rival bridge is unconstitutional.
The Grosse Pointe billionaire is plowing new legal ground. according to his lawyer in the capital. "No one's ever argued it. It's never really come up," Spangler quotes the attorney as saying.
