Christo asks judge to shred ‘Rags’ suit

Artist Christo and the U.S. Bureau of Land Management are reasserting their defense of his Arkansas River art project against a lawsuit filed by a group opposed to it. The artist and BLM, in court filings this week, contend a judge should not allow the lawsuit by the group Rags Over the Arkansas River Inc., known as ROAR, to stop the planned project. The group sued last year in U.S. District Court to block the project, which would consist of hanging 5.9 miles of luminous fabric above the river in eight sections along 42 miles between Canon City and Salida. In the filings, BLM asked Senior Judge John Kane to dismiss the lawsuit and Christo’s Over the River Corp. asked for Kane to enter judgment in favor of the company. Either request, if granted, essentially would produce the same result of throwing out the lawsuit. BLM and Christo’s filings deny many of ROAR’s allegations. Source