Source: Lisa Sorg, NC POLICY WATCH, 12/21/21


A three-judge panel from the state Court of Appeals unanimously ruled against an environmental justice group today, deciding that North Carolina legislature had the authority to make it difficult, if not impossible, for people to sue hog farms for nuisance. The ruling affirmed a lower court’s decision. The amendments to the Farm Acts of 2017 and 2018 “are a valid exercise of legislative and the State’s police powers,” wrote Justice John Tyson. Nor are they “a special or private law, and do not deprive a prospective plaintiff of the right to a jury trial.” Judges Jefferson Griffin and Fred Gore concurred.

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