Personal injury attorney heads for trial

Following a failed attempt to stage a rodeo in Greece in 2003, the two parties involved are blaming each other for the fiasco. Demetrios Kafkas, a suspended personal injury lawyer, is accused of writing two bad checks to pay for bulls, a rodeo arena, a trailer and a mechanical bull. The total sum involved comes to $77,000 and Ken Churchill, owner of Maine-based World Cup Bull Riders is looking forward to his day in court on May 2 in Lowell District Court.

Kafkas denies liability, claiming the rodeo flopped because of bad publicity after Churchill and other cowboys got into a fight in Greece. "My family lost hundreds of thousands of dollars," Kafkas said.

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