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 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 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...
