The 21-acre lake in the middle of Stewart County, Georgia, was intentionally polluted by solar power developers who did not use adequate erosion and sediment control measures, a federal judge found. (Courtesy photo: Butler Prather)
Georgia plaintiffs attorney Jim Butler Jr. has added another $100 million verdict to his resume—this time in a case over damage to land he once co-owned with his former law partners.
While groups like the American Tort Reform Association have panned what they call “absurd nuclear verdicts”—those exceeding $10 million—a federal jury was convinced that the regression of a 21-acre lake into what the complaint described as “a mud hole” was not only avoidable, but also intentional.
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