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Remote Monitoring Technologies
provides consulting, engineering and implementation expertise
needed to take your project from concept to fruition.
Remote Monitoring Technologies
offers cutting-edge solutions using Commercial-Off-The-Shelf (COTS)
products and Integrated technologies to provide remote site
monitoring, Solar LED Lighting, autonomous wireless solutions and
infrastructure for management, security and surveillance needs.
In the
News
 Dallas,
Texas February 19, 2008
The Law Offices of Heygood, Orr,
Reyes, Pearson & Bartolomei announced
today the February 15th jury verdict in the amount of $3
million for their client,
Tony Alardin, in a partnership
dispute regarding the development, manufacture and sale of
wireless video surveillance trailer systems.
In 2001, Mr. Alardin, along with his company
Remote Monitoring Technologies,
entered into a partnership with Dallas businessman Gregg
Hoss and his company,
Hoss Equipment Company, to
perfect the technology and further develop and market
wireless video surveillance trailer systems. In March 2005,
as the technology was being perfected and as the market
became poised for growth, Mr. Hoss barred Mr. Alardin from
the premises of the partnership. Hoss Equipment Company
continued developing and marketing the wireless video
surveillance trailer systems and subsequently generated
approximately $2 million in revenue. Mr. Hoss denied the
existence of any legal partnership with Mr. Alardin and took
the position that his relationship with Mr. Alardin was, at
best, a marketing partnership and as a result, he was fully
within his rights to do what he did.
In January 2006, Mr. Hoss and Hoss Equipment Co., by and
through their attorney Jack Balderson of
Thompson & Knight, brought
this lawsuit against Mr. Alardin seeking, among other
things, repayment of the money put into the wireless video
surveillance trailer systems prior to the lock-out. Mr. Hoss
claimed such money had not been capital contributions to a
legal partnership but instead loans to Mr. Alardin and his
company that were never repaid.
Mr. Alardin approached Heygood, Orr, Reyes, Pearson &
Bartolomei to defend him against the allegations brought
against him and to pursue counterclaims against Gregg Hoss,
including breach of fiduciary duty. The case was tried in
Dallas County before Judge Jim Jordan. After a week and a
half trial and two days of deliberation, the jury returned
its verdict and found that Mr. Hoss had in fact breached his
fiduciary duty to Mr. Alardin. The jury awarded Mr. Alardin
$3 million in compensation.
Michael Heygood, Partner
(pictured above)
of
HORP&B, was the lead trial
attorney for Tony Alardin, and was assisted at trial by
Ryan Browne. Mr. Heygood
commented, At the end of the day, as is often the case, the
jury was able to understand what was really going on.
According to Mr. Heygood, Even though there was no written
partnership agreement, the jury recognized the partnership
between Mr. Hoss and Mr. Alardin and agreed that Mr. Hoss
failed to treat Mr. Alardin fairly or justly."
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