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Maryland court finds for poultry growers
Story Date: 12/21/2012
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Source: Lisa M. Keefe, MEATINGPLACE, 12/20/12
This morning the U.S. District Court of Maryland found in favor of Perdue Farms' grower Hudson Farms in a case filed against them by Waterkeeper Alliance Inc.
In a memo of opinion filed in the case, Judge William M. Nickerson noted that the Waterkeeper Alliance had not met the standard of "preponderance of evidence" in its argument that the Hudson farm had discharged pollutants into the area's waterways that eventually found its way downriver toward the Chesapeake Bay.
The judge did not impose liability against Perdue under the Clean Water Act (CWA), saying there was insufficient evidence that Perdue was involved in the day-to-day operations at the Hudson farm. However, he noted that he had earlier refused to dismiss Perdue as a defendant in the case, leaving open the possibility that in other cases the integrator could be found liable for violations of the CWA.
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