Oil, One Lawyer and Only 64 Souls: Fifth Circuit Weighs in on Loving County’s War of Neighbors

Throughout history, there have been lawsuits and court cases that have been just as much about the city or town where the dispute took place as it was about the people and the conflict itself. 

The 1980s Georgia murder trials of John Williams, as featured in the bestselling book Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil, were as much about life in Savannah as it was the killing of Danny Hansford. The multibillion-dollar civil trial involving the Exxon Valdez oil spill put the lives of the people of Cordova and Prince William Sound at the center of the decadeslong legal battle.