Jury awards $750,000 to families evicted over race at Smith Mountain Lake • Virginia Mercury

Jury says Virginia campground must pay 2 families $750,000 for discrimination against Black camper

Two families have been awarded $750,000 after a jury ruled that the owner of a Virginia campground discriminated against them because one of the campers was a Black man.

Jury awards $750,000 to families evicted over race at Smith Mountain Lake • Virginia Mercury

A Franklin County jury has awarded $750,000 in damages to two families who were evicted from a Smith Mountain Lake campground after the owner learned one of the family members was Black. The verdict marks the largest fair housing jury award ever secured by the Virginia attorney general’s office, according to a news release by Attorney General Jason Miyares. The case centered on Regina Turner, owner of Lazy Cove Campground, who had rented lakesid…