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 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 | Aug 3, 2018 | Beyond Bacon, Court cases
“He that is of an Opinion that Money will do every Thing, may well be suspected of doing every Thing for Money.” – From Benjamin Franklin’s 1753 “Poor Richard’s Almanack” The Texas lawyer was deep into his closing argument in the third hog farm trial on...
by Bra5c0 | Jul 31, 2018 | Beyond Bacon, Court cases
One of the hardest things about watching the third hog farm trial is to also watch a litany of courtroom distortions, especially about the people ultimately in charge of the farms at issue in this trial. It’s a group led by a man named Dean Hilton. In court, the Texas...
by Bra5c0 | Jul 24, 2018 | Beyond Bacon, Court cases
The third case brought by the Texas lawyer against a North Carolina hog farm has been building, slowly and carefully, to what surely would be the dramatic testimony of a key plaintiff. The plaintiff’s name is Jimmy Jacobs. He took the stand Tuesday. And, yes, there...