by Jen Kendrick | Mar 6, 2019 | Beyond Bacon, Court cases, NCPC News
A judgment stemming from a $50 million verdict must be overturned, farm groups told a federal appeals court in Richmond, Va., yesterday. Earlier last year, juries in three separate trials in Raleigh, N.C., awarded punitive damages of more than $500 million to...
by Jen Kendrick | Dec 13, 2018 | Beyond Bacon, Court cases, NCPC News
We have been concerned, from the very beginning, about the way these cases were tried and the threat they pose to our industry. It is gratifying to have a judge rule, as a matter of law, that Murphy-Brown is not willfully harming its...
by Jen Kendrick | Dec 4, 2018 | Beyond Bacon
Having the advanced notice of pending hurricanes is a double-edged sword. On the one hand, farmers have time to prepare. We fill feed bins and fuel tanks, bring in mattresses for staff and tie down equipment. On the other hand it gives us a lot of time to worry. We...
by Jen Kendrick | Oct 29, 2018 | Beyond Bacon, Court cases, NCPC News
In a sweeping ruling, a three-judge panel of the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals in Richmond, Va., overturned the gag rule issued by Judge Earl Britt just before the verdict in the second trial this summer. The gag order prevented Smithfield Foods and others from...
by Jen Kendrick | Oct 15, 2018 | NCPC News
RALEIGH- The N.C. Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services has partnered with the USDA’s Natural Resources Conservation Service to continue its program to purchase permanent conservation easements on swine operations within the 100-year floodplain. This will be...
