October 4, 2018
Penn Live, Matt Miller, October 1, 2018- The state Supreme Court has refused to step into a dispute between a pig farm and its neighbors. Odor is the issue. Six months ago, the state Superior Court refused to revive lawsuits neighbors of Will-O-Bett Farm in Luzerne County filed against the Salem …
June 28, 2018
AG Daily, Staff, June 27, 2018- North Carolina Governor Roy Cooper has vetoed the North Carolina Farm Act — a bill that would have limited how and when neighbors of hog farms can sue with nuisance claims. Gov. Cooper shared the following statement on his veto of Senate Bill 717. “While …
June 26, 2018
US News, AP, June 22, 2018- Three southeast Iowa families who say the stench from two hog farms made it difficult for them to emerge from their homes won’t get immediate help from the Iowa Supreme Court, which Friday reversed a lower court decision that found a law protecting producers was unconstitutional. …
May 15, 2018
Southwest Farm Press, Tiffany Dowell Lashmet, May 14, 2018- In recent weeks, the big buzz in agricultural law was a verdict in North Carolina, finding a Smithfield Foods subsidiary liable for nuisance and awarding $50 million in damages to neighboring landowners. Today, we will take a look at that case, …
May 2, 2018
Tulsa World, Jim Chin, April 30, 2018- By a vote of 60.3 percent, Oklahoma voters defeated the deceptively named Right to Farm ballot issue in 2016, a measure that would have greatly restricted our state Legislature from passing laws for our protection. All states now face a much greater threat …