Source: WINSTON-SALEM JOURNAL, 1/3/19

 The partial government shutdown is prompting the federal judge managing lawsuits accusing the world's largest pork company of creating nuisances for rural North Carolina neighbors to postpone the next trial. U.S. District Judge Earl Britt ordered Thursday that a jury trial scheduled to start Tuesday must be postponed because jury pay couldn't be guaranteed beyond next week. Britt said the fifth of more than two dozen lawsuits by more than 500 neighbors of intensive animal operations will be rescheduled once funding is appropriated.

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