By Gil Smart, Treasure Coast Newspapers, TCPalm.com; December 23, 2019
On Friday, Indian River County sustained yet another blow in its never-ending legal battle with Virgin Trains.
This may have been a knockout punch.
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia rejected the county’s claims the federal government improperly approved $1.15 billion in private activity bonds for the higher-speed rail company — formerly known as Brightline — to expand its Miami-to-Orlando rail line, and that the bonds were issued without sufficient environmental review.