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Nuisance Jury Awards

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

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Texas Jury Awards Damages for Fracking Nuisance Claim for the Second Time

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Last Friday, a Texas jury awarded a Tarrant County couple $20,000 in damages after finding activities at a natural gas drilling site located 165 feet from their property constituted a temporary private nuisance. The verdict...more

King & Spalding

"Hydraulic Fracturing" Verdict in Texas State Court -- Texas family recovers $3 million based on nuisance theory

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On April 22, 2014, a six-person jury in Dallas awarded a Texas family $2.925 million in a trial based on medical problems allegedly caused by natural gas development. While the case involved gas wells that had been...more

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