Our system has reached the state of madness. "Flower Mound man faces billions in fines for storing wood" 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 ... http://www.dallasnews.com/news/loca...-faces-billions-in-fines-for-storing-wood.ece