GriggsCHCooperstown (CSi) Southeast District Judge Jerod Tufte has denied Griggs County’s request to terminate its lease with the Griggs County Building Authority last month.

The two groups are locked in a dispute over which one is responsible for the failure to complete construction of the $2.2 million courthouse portion of a $3.5 million building project, which remains unfinished.

No further additional hearings have been scheduled in the case. Tufte delivered his order on Dec. 30.