There is no question that financial trader and inventor Fane Lozman has been a thorn in the side of the city council of Riviera Beach, Florida, for more than a decade. And now—for the second time in five years—his legal battles with the city have captured the attention of the U.S. Supreme Court.

The justices on Monday granted review in Lozman v. City of Riviera Beach, a case that raises a very different legal question from the high court’s first foray into this south Florida conflict in 2012.

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Lozman, represented by Stanford Law School’s Pamela Karlan, said he approached large law firms to represent him in the civil rights case. Those firms, he said, found damages were minimal or nonexistent and the case wasn’t worth their time. Greenberg Traurig’s Kerri Barsh, a Miami shareholder and co-chair of the firm’s environmental practice, was on the Supreme Court petition with Karlan.