And 3 fiddy. Story out of Hunt County, Texas:
Flower Mound resident Kirk Grady owned some Hunt County property with a woodpile for about three years before he sold it in 2002.
Hunt County now wants to collect as much as $2 billion from him in fines for improper waste disposal, he says. Hunt County sued Grady in Travis County last year, and Grady is fighting back with a federal lawsuit.
Grady's Dallas attorney, Michael R. Goldman, blames the "ridiculous and unconscionable" legal action on the county's hiring of a private law firm to prosecute the state lawsuit with a contingency-fee provision. That means the law firm gets to keep a percentage of whatever is collected.
That has given the firm a perverse incentive to sue for as much money as possible, said Goldman. And critics say some elected officials could use the law to reward lawyers who give money to their campaigns, as was alleged in a Dallas case.
Grady bought an interest in 50 acres in Hunt County in 1998 that was leased to companies that recycled wood, the federal lawsuit said. In 2000, he bought out his partner. He sold the land to Republic Waste in 2002.
Grady says in his lawsuit that Hunt County doesn't know when the wood pile was placed on the property. Grady also says he only learned about the wood when Hunt County served him with a lawsuit in 2015. Cont.
Story from - The Dallas Morning News
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