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Ward and Smith, P.A.

Trespassers? How to Protect Your Farm Against Unwelcome Strangers

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Discovering unauthorized persons on your farm is a growing problem.  Such unauthorized entry could include media news teams filming farm operations, environmental activists seeking to identify violations of various water...more

Hogan Lovells

Legal and Financial Risk Newsletter – May 2019

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UK class actions revived? The Court of Appeal breathes life into Merricks' £14 billion claim against MasterCard - The Court of Appeal has allowed Walter Merricks' appeal of the Competition Appeal Tribunal's (the "CAT")...more

Perkins Coie

Large Jury Verdicts in Hog Nuisance Cases Signal CAFO Litigation Is Rising

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A federal jury last week returned a $473.5 million verdict against the world’s largest pork producer for nuisances caused by three industrial-scale hog farms. The verdict is the largest of three matching verdicts against...more

Beveridge & Diamond PC

North Carolina Federal Court Slashes Hog Farm Neighbors’ $50 Million Punitive Damages Award

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Illustrating the power of state-law caps on damages, a federal judge in North Carolina slashed a jury’s award of $5 million in punitive damages to each of ten neighbors who sued a hog farm owner for failure to properly...more

Seyfarth Shaw LLP

History Repeats Itself: The EEOC Scores Big Judgment Against Absent Party

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Seyfarth Synopsis: The EEOC obtains a multi-million dollar default judgment against an out-of-business company in a case alleging “human trafficking” discrimination claims....more

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Federal Judge Awards EEOC $7,658,500 in Case Against Farm Labor Contractor Global Horizons

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62 Thai Farmworkers Vindicated After Exploitation at the Hands of Global Horizons - LOS ANGELES - A federal judge has ordered farm labor contractor Global Horizons, Inc. to pay $7,658,500 for a pattern or practice of...more

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