BELLE MINA, Ala. (WAFF) – The residents of Belle Mina have been throwing punch after punch at the owners of a rock quarry in their backyards.
Now, after over a year of back-and-forth litigation, the landowners of the quarry are throwing a counterpunch of their own; one they hope will get them more than a million and a half dollars.
“This lawsuit is frivolous, it’s a form of harassment and retaliation against my client,” Sarah Stokes, senior attorney at the SELC, said. “It’s called a SLAPP suit, and it’s supposed to intimidate, it’s meant to intimidate.”…