by Bra5c0 | Dec 8, 2018 | Beyond Bacon, Court cases
This past week, as in previous nuisance trials, there was a moment when the Texas lawyer stood before the jury and attempted with all his might to ignite in them the passions of ancient division: To make these cases about good versus evil. “This process,” he told the...
by Bra5c0 | Dec 7, 2018 | Beyond Bacon, Court cases
The fourth nuisance trial is in the hands of a jury. And so, now, we wait. We wait for a just result. We wait for the signal that, yes, facts and truth can and will prevail in a courtroom 100 miles away from our farms. Importantly, we wait in a belief that the men and...
by Bra5c0 | Nov 16, 2018 | Beyond Bacon, Court cases
A nuisance lawsuit against a North Carolina hog farm, the fourth in a series of trials, began Wednesday in federal court in Raleigh. This case involves a farm in Sampson County. The Texas lawyer was back in town this week and he was again spinning quite a tale. In his...
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 Bra5c0 | Sep 3, 2018 | Beyond Bacon, Court cases
We’re not sure if we should laugh or cry at the opinion piece published in the Fayetteville Observer under the name of Billy Richardson of Fayetteville. Richardson is not only an elected state official. He’s also a lawyer. So it’s no surprise that he would leap at the...
by Bra5c0 | Sep 3, 2018 | Beyond Bacon, Court cases
There is a deeply regrettable thing about lawyer and state representative Billy Richardson adopting, whole cloth, the arguments of the plaintiffs’ attorneys in the ongoing nuisance trials in an opinion piece. It is this: He uses precious ink and a public forum to do...
