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Law

Federal Jury Awards More Than $470 Million To Hog Farm Neighbors In Nuisance Suit

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Last week a federal jury awarded more than $470 million to six neighbors of a hog farm operation in Pender County, North Carolina following a nuisance lawsuit. The neighbors said the farm produced smells, noise, flies and pests. 

It is the third and largest hog nuisance verdict against pork producer Murphy-Brown, a subsidiary of Smithfield Foods. Host Frank Stasio speaks with Michelle Nowlin, a clinical professor of law at Duke University and supervising attorney for the Environmental Law and Policy Clinic, about the decision and what it means for hog farming in North Carolina. 

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Laura Pellicer is a digital reporter with WUNC’s small but intrepid digital news team.
Longtime NPR correspondent Frank Stasio was named permanent host of The State of Things in June 2006. A native of Buffalo, Frank has been in radio since the age of 19. He began his public radio career at WOI in Ames, Iowa, where he was a magazine show anchor and the station's News Director.