Jury tells pork giant to pay $473.5M in nuisance lawsuit
Story Date: 8/6/2018

 

Source: Alec Derosier and Emery P. Dalesio, FAYETTEVILLE OBSERVER, 8/3/18

A federal jury says the world’s largest pork producer should pay $473.5 million to neighbors of three North Carolina industrial-scale hog farms for unreasonable nuisances they suffered from odors, flies and rumbling trucks.
The jury decided Friday that Smithfield Foods owes 16 neighbors in the case stemming from nearby hog operations that raised its animals.

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