Smithfield asks judge to slash $50M verdict in hog waste trial
Story Date: 5/4/2018

  Source: POLITICO'S MORNING AGRICULTURE, 5/3/18

Murphy-Brown, a subsidiary of Smithfield Foods, asked a federal judge to cut a judgment that a North Carolina jury handed down against the pork producer to $2.5 million. The company argues that the award of more than $50 million should be decreased under a state law capping punitive damages.
























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