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 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...
