News & Analysis as of

Right to Farm Act Nuisance

(ACOEL) | American College of Environmental...

Keep Makin’ Bacon” Indiana’s Right to Farm Act Statute Upheld As Constitutional

Indiana, like every other State, has adopted a Right to Farm Act to “reduce the loss to the state of its agricultural resources by limiting the circumstances under which agricultural operations may be deemed to be a...more

Fox Rothschild LLP

Is North Carolina’s Right To Farm Act A “Special” Law?

Fox Rothschild LLP on

In this series of posts examining a recent challenge to North Carolina’s expansion of its Right to Farm Act, Rural Empowerment Ass’n for Cmty. Help v. State, No. 19-CVS-008198 (N.C. Super. Ct. filed June 19, 2019) (detailed...more

Fox Rothschild LLP

Everything But The Kitchen Sink: Advocacy Groups Cite A Number Of Constitutional Challenges To North Carolina’s Expansion Of The...

Fox Rothschild LLP on

In the ongoing controversy over a series of nuisance suits regarding eastern North Carolinian hog-farming operations, a collection of advocacy groups have now filed a constitutional challenge to the North Carolina General...more

Fox Rothschild LLP

North Carolina Expands Protections For Its Farmers Under The Right To Farm Act.

Fox Rothschild LLP on

In 2014 and 2015, 26 nuisance lawsuits representing over 500 North Carolina residents were brought against Murphy-Brown, a subsidiary of Smithfield Foods, in North Carolina federal court. The lawsuits involve 89 hog farms or...more

Perkins Coie

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

Perkins Coie on

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

McNees Wallace & Nurick LLC

Pennsylvania High Court Reinforces Nuisance Claim Bar Under the Right To Farm Act

On December 21, 2015, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court decided the case Gilbert, et al. v. Synagro Central, LLC, et al., Pa Supreme Court No. 121 MAP 2014 (December 21, 2015), which interpreted a provision of the Pennsylvania...more

Beveridge & Diamond PC

Beveridge & Diamond Secures Unanimous Ruling in Pennsylvania Supreme Court Shielding Biosolids Land Application from Tort Claims

Beveridge & Diamond PC on

Litigators in the Firm’s Washington, DC office secured a unanimous ruling from the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania in favor of Beveridge & Diamond client Synagro and persuaded the Court to hold that land application of...more

Beveridge & Diamond PC

Beveridge & Diamond Secures Pennsylvania Supreme Court Review in Toxic Tort Case

Beveridge & Diamond PC on

Litigators in the Firm’s Washington, DC office persuaded the Pennsylvania Supreme Court to grant an appeal in a tort case in which 34 plaintiffs allege that the land application of biosolids to farmland created a nuisance and...more

8 Results
 / 
View per page
Page: of 1

"My best business intelligence, in one easy email…"

Your first step to building a free, personalized, morning email brief covering pertinent authors and topics on JD Supra:
*By using the service, you signify your acceptance of JD Supra's Privacy Policy.
- hide
- hide