Guy Down the Street Being Sued fopr $2 Billion!

[M.D. Holloway]

Flower Mound man faces billions in fines for storing wood | Dallas Morning News

An 'unlawful dump site'

Earnest W. Wotring, a Houston attorney who is handling the lawsuit for Hunt County, said in an email that the wood on the property tested positive for asbestos, arsenic and lead. He said that it took more than 60 truckloads to remove the debris in December and that the county doesn't believe people should be allowed to turn county land into an "unlawful dump site

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.

Hunt County also named Republic Waste as a defendant in the state lawsuit.

Goldman said the county is seeking the maximum amount of fines available under the law.

"The fact that a governmental unit in the State of Texas has proceeded in this manner is a clear violation of Grady's constitutional rights," he said in the federal lawsuit.

Wood from 2002 is most likely long gone. The trace hazards must be from soil samples?

Hope they don't look in my backyard...

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So what US corporations do that and worse everyday overseas...and you buy their toxic polluting crap down at the Wally World...btw for you literalists Wally World is just a metaphor...just open the hood of your car and check out the parts. Talk about killing the planet...well yourselves really only cockroaches and Keith will be left.

[M.D. Holloway]

two words...Tort Reform

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Years ago 60 Minutes had a segment where a US corp built a plant across the Rio Grande in Mexico. The fumes from the plant were causing a high incidence of brain cancer on the American side of the river. Yet nothing could be done about it because the plant was on foreign soil.

[M.D. Holloway]

two words....Big Fans

[Bob Kontak]

Originally Posted by M.D. Holloway

Wood from 2002 is most likely long gone. The trace hazards must be from soil samples?

From the article:

The wood pile

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.

I think it was a massive collection of construction lumber. Article said wood tested positive.

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So much for the old saw that Texas is more business friendly than California, and less litigious.