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 | Aug 3, 2018 | Beyond Bacon, Court cases, NCPC News
Statement of North Carolina Pork Council The verdict is outrageous. The farms on trial were constructed in the mid-1990s. Since then, each of the six plaintiffs in this case either moved to the farms or built new homes in that farming community. None had made any...
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 5, 2018 | Beyond Bacon, Court cases
A lot of people want to know how in the world a Texas lawyer convinced a North Carolina jury that a responsible, well-run hog farm is a legal nuisance, punishable with a (soon-to-be-reduced) $25 million verdict. The answer may have nothing to do with pigs – and...
