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 Jen Kendrick | Jun 22, 2018 | Beyond Bacon, Court cases
One way the Texas lawyer bringing the nuisance lawsuit has tried to turn facts upside down is by arguing, over and over, that the pork industry in North Carolina is stuck in its ways. Farmers use the same system they always have, he argues, and only the jury can make...
by Jen Kendrick | Jun 5, 2018 | Beyond Bacon, Court cases
At the nuisance trial in Raleigh, Steve Wing was testifying about his views on hog farms. Wing was both a researcher at UNC-Chapel Hill – and an officer in a nonprofit organization that filed complaints about the hog industry. He died of cancer in 2016 and so his...
by Jen Kendrick | May 31, 2018 | Beyond Bacon, Court cases
There is an astonishing story being told in a federal courtroom in Raleigh right now. It’s coming from a Texas lawyer named Michael Kaeske. He’s speaking to 12 jurors, trying to sell them on the notion that a hog farm in North Carolina is a legal nuisance – one that...
by Bra5c0 | Apr 5, 2017 | NCPC News, Pork Industry News
There’s been much discussion about House Bill 467, a proposal to protect North Carolina farmers. This legislation has one narrow purpose: to clarify North Carolina law about what type of damages can be awarded in nuisance lawsuits. In a pending nuisance case, a...
