A zinc factory drops lawsuit it filed against several citizens

A zinc factory coming to Cass County has dropped a lawsuit it filed against 30 citizens.

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Our top story tonight - a zinc factory coming to cass county has dropped a lawsuit it filed against 30 citizens.

I spoke with the lawyer representing the citizens about why the lawsuit was dropped.

He also shares why the battle isn't over and says there are still 3 active lawsuits against the company.

On july 22nd wsp filed a lawsuit against more than 30 citizens in cass county.

People questioned the county on selling $1.3 million dollars worth of land to the company for $10.

"we were able to reach an agreement where wsp drop the suit against the 32 individuals.

In return the liz pendens would be withdrawn."

John shcwarz along with jim brujh are the attornies representing many of the people apart of a cass county citizens coalition group who are challenging wsp.

"i don't think it was fair for them to be involved, sued if you will, because of that.

So it was a lot of stress for people.

So it was nice to get the citizens out of that suit."

However, schwarz says there's still 3 other lawsuits on the table.

There's a lawsuit filed claiming the county had private negotiations with wsp, a lawsuit that still questions the transaction of property and a lawsuit regarding wsp's construction in cass county's agriculture park.

"it's a lot.

But it's important."

Schwarz goes on to say that through all of this he's noticed some positives.

"pretty much every segment of society that you could put together has banded together."

He says the level of support speaks volumes.

"they've raised tens of thousands of dollars to hire experts and bring on some additional legal help and so on.

You want to talk about a community coming together, this is it."

Schwarz says there are two court dates set later this month for two of the lawsuits.

He also says citizens apart of the coalition met with wsp today and have a trip scheduled to visit another one of its factory's in alabama.

He says the goal of the trip is to see what the safety guards are for operations, employees and the environment.

There's also plenty of information on this issue attached to this web story on our website.

That's wlfi dot com.

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