{"id":53352,"date":"2025-12-05T22:04:30","date_gmt":"2025-12-05T22:04:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/53352\/"},"modified":"2025-12-05T22:04:30","modified_gmt":"2025-12-05T22:04:30","slug":"gannon-blasco-library-lease-lawsuit-reaches-settlement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/53352\/","title":{"rendered":"Gannon-Blasco Library lease lawsuit reaches settlement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Updated Dec. 5, 2025, 2:44 p.m. ET<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">More than a year after a citizen group <a href=\"http:\/\/www.goerie.com\/story\/news\/local\/2024\/06\/29\/erie-pa-citizen-group-sues-county-executive-davis-for-leasing-blasco-library-to-gannon\/74250146007\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\" data-t-l=\":b|e|k|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\">filed a lawsuit<\/a> challenging Gannon University\u2019s lease at Erie County\u2019s main public library, the case appears close to being resolved.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">On Dec. 3, the attorney for the citizen group \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/keepourlibrarypublic.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\" data-t-l=\":b|z|k|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\">Keep Our Library Public<\/a> \u2014 joined with the attorneys for Erie County, Gannon University and Erie County Council to inform Judge James Arner that the parties had agreed to settle the case upon certain terms and conditions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Updated Dec. 5, 2025, 2:44 p.m. ET More than a year after a citizen group filed a lawsuit&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":53353,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[532,136,138,137,539,646,647,11059,1549,1844,6661,9601,1241,18573,1176,12574,2045,651,648,1761,1140,535],"class_list":{"0":"post-53352","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-erie","8":"tag-accesspremium","9":"tag-erie","10":"tag-erie-headlines","11":"tag-erie-news","12":"tag-pa","13":"tag-sstsnewslocal","14":"tag-sstsnlocal","15":"tag-tagcolleges-universities","16":"tag-tagcourts-judiciary","17":"tag-tagerie-county","18":"tag-tagerie-county-public-library","19":"tag-taggannon-university","20":"tag-taggovernment","21":"tag-taglawsuits","22":"tag-taglegal","23":"tag-taglibraries","24":"tag-taglocal-government","25":"tag-taglocal-news","26":"tag-tagoverall-negative","27":"tag-tagreal-estate-law","28":"tag-tagstory-highlights-ai-enabled","29":"tag-typestory"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53352","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53352"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53352\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/53353"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}