Highway guardrail manufacturer Trinity Industries Inc. won the latest round in a long-running legal fight, when a federal appeals court overturned an earlier $682.4-million judgment against the Dallas-based company.
The decision, issued on Sept. 29 by a three-judge panel of the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, is a defeat for Joshua Harman, a former Trinity customer and competitor, who alleged that Trinity violated the False Claims Act by not disclosing to the Federal Highway Administration changes in a newer version of the firm’s guardrail end-terminal. An attorney for Harman did not return ENR’s call seeking comment.