TBA Law Blog


Posted by: Julia Wilburn on Jan 7, 2025

"Valley So Low: One Lawyer's Fight for Justice in the Wake of America's Great Coal Catastrophe," published last year and written by Franklin author Jared Sullivan, was named one of 2024's "Best Books" by The New Yorker. The book follows Roane County attorney Jim Scott's representation of dozens of workers who were sickened after working on the cleanup site of the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) coal ash spill in December 2002. The lawsuit was eventually settled in 2023Williamson Source reports on the book and the honor.