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Punitive Damages Nuisance

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Inverse Condemnation/Nuisance: Benton Apartment Complex Owner Files Federal District Court Judicial Action Against...

Benton Housing Associates Limited Partnership (“Benton Housing”) filed on August 9th in the United States District Court for the District of Arkansas (Central Division) a Complaint against the following defendants: City...more

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The Exhaustion of Administrative Remedies Defense Takes Another Hit

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The Supreme Court of Mississippi recently held in Tiger Production Company, LLC v. Pace, 2021-IA-00315-SCT, 2022 WL 11555295 (October 20, 2022) that surface owners are not necessarily required to exhaust administrative...more

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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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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

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Complaint To Administrative Agency Does Not Support Abuse of Process Claim But May Be A Nuisance

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Bonnie Springs Ranch sits below towering and very picturesque Aztec Sandstone cliffs a few miles outside of Las Vegas, Nevada.  After terminating a contract to sell some adjacent land, Bonnie Springs alleged that that buyer...more

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