by Jen Kendrick | Jan 30, 2020 | Beyond Bacon, Court cases, NCPC News, Pork Industry News
Statement from the NC Pork Council on the appeals to be heard in the 4th Circuit Court of Appeals on Jan. 31, 2020: All of agriculture in North Carolina is rightly alarmed by what transpired in the unfair trials brought against our farms. Make no mistake: These cases...
by Jen Kendrick | Mar 8, 2019 | Beyond Bacon, Court cases, NCPC News
We are again disappointed that honorable North Carolina pig farmers like Joey Carter, who lawfully operate in a highly regulated industry, can be deemed a nuisance. We are equally concerned about the long-term impact that these...
by Bra5c0 | Mar 7, 2019 | Beyond Bacon, Court cases
In the closing moments of the nuisance trial this week, the Texas lawyer tried to persuade the jury that his ongoing attack in the courtroom, while seeking piles of money, isn’t about modern agriculture. That it’s not about pining for “the old days” – days when...
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 Bra5c0 | Mar 6, 2019 | Beyond Bacon, Court cases
It is difficult to find the right words to describe what was happening Tuesday as the Texas lawyer stood before a jury in Raleigh at the close of the fifth nuisance hog farm trial and pleaded for tens of millions of dollars – piles of money for himself and 10...
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...
