Markowitz & Company, Plaintiff-Appellee-Crossappellant v. Toledo Metropolitan Housing Authority, Defendant-Appellant-Crossappellee

PECK, Senior Circuit Judge.

This is a complicated diversity breach of contract case, with a flurry of claims and counterclaims, appeals, and crossappeals. The parties are the plaintiff, Markowitz & Co. [Markowitz], a Michigan building contractor; the Toledo Metropolitan Housing Authority [TMHA], accused of breach of contract; and Almour Securities, accused of conspiring to deprive Markowitz of the benefit of its contract with TMHA. Almour asserted its foreclosure action against Mar-kowitz as a counterclaim. At trial, Mar-kowitz prevailed on the breach of contract claim and was awarded…