November 15, 2018
Smithfield Foods Inc.'s subsidiary Murphy-Brown LLC asked a North Carolina federal court Wednesday for a new trial after a $94 million judgment was handed down in a case over feces and urine at its hog farms, arguing the jury trial included several significant errors that called its result into question.
August 03, 2018
A federal jury awarded six North Carolina residents a total of $473.5 million Friday on their nuisance claims against a pork company over the feces, urine, foul odors, flies and rumbling trucks associated with hog farms near their properties.