U.S. Chamber backs Flower Mound man facing billions in fines for storing wood

The U.S. Chamber of Commerce has filed a court brief supporting a Flower Mound man who is fighting a potential $2 billion in fines from Hunt County for storing wood on property he owned.

The chamber filed its brief last month in a federal lawsuit Kirk Grady brought against Hunt County, which hired private lawyers to sue him for improper waste disposal.

Grady owned some Hunt County property with a woodpile for about three years before he sold it in 2002. Hunt County sued Grady in Travis County last year.

The lawyers for Hunt County have a contingency contract that gives them a share of any money they collect from Grady. That conflicts with "fundamental fairness in judicial proceedings," wrote Christopher Odell, a Houston attorney representing the U.S. chamber.

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