4th Circ. Says Judge Can't Gag Parties In Hog Farm Trials

By Daniel Siegal (October 30, 2018, 10:54 PM EDT) -- The Fourth Circuit has held that a trial court can't impose a gag order on a Smithfield Foods unit and the many North Carolina residents suing it over the feces and urine at its hog farms, ruling the order "hamstrung the exercise of First Amendment rights."...

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