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Family in Georgia says they're forced to sell home to help power data centers (www.msn.com)
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[–] xilophor@lemmy.world 6 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago)

Like AstralPath said, the take a fairly large portion of the final payout, but more than that, when they are working on commission, they pay for all the costs, which isn't very tempting. For most laywers, if not all, working on commision, the have to be fairly certain of two things:

  1. They have a good chance of winning the case
  2. Their portion payout will cover (and preferably more than cover) the costs they put into it

Unfortunately, not both are true that often. So, many people are just left screwed over with no way to recover anything