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ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT Justices Let 'Malice' Verdict Stand Against Environmentalist Law360 (January 11, 2021, 6:30 PM EST) -- A prominent Florida environmentalist is on the hook for a $4.4 million verdict after the U.S. Supreme Court declined Monday to hear her appeal in a lawsuit stemming from her opposition to a limestone mining and water treatment project in Martin County. In her petition, Maggy Hurchalla had told the high court that the underlying decision from Florida's Fourth District Court of Appeal upholding the jury verdict impinges on First Amendment free speech and petition r...

The U.S. Supreme Court has declined to hear an appeal by a Florida environmentalist who was facing a $4.4 million verdict in a lawsuit stemming from her opposition to a project in Martin County.