An attorney with the National Agricultural Law Center says additional nuisance lawsuit jury awards against North Carolina hog farmers might continue.
Senior Staff Attorney Rusty Rumley tells Brownfield when producers for Smithfield Foods lost in court, North Carolina state lawmakers immediately recognized a need to update their Right to Farm statutes. “They’ve actually just updated their law a couple of weeks ago after the first verdict came down.”
But, Rumley says the new North Carolina law doesn’t change cases already filed.
