Source: NEWS & OBSERVER, 5/9/18

A little more than a week after a jury handed down a landmark verdict to neighbors of a hog farm in Eastern North Carolina, the federal judge who presided over the trial reduced the damage sentence from more than $50 million to $3.25 million.
The ruling, entered by U.S. District Judge Earl Britt, comes in the first of a series of hog farm nuisance lawsuits filed against Murphy-Brown, a subsidiary of Smithfield Foods.

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