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Judge rules no punishing Smithfield Foods for hog complex
RALEIGH, N.C. – A federal judge in North Carolina is shutting down a lawsuit against a Smithfield Foods hog feeding operation by some neighbours who complained of odours, flies and noises.
U.S. District Judge David Faber on Thursday declared there wasn’t enough evidence for those neighbours to pursue punitive damages.
Jurors in Raleigh determined Wednesday that eight neighbours of a Smithfield Foods animal feeding operation in Sampson County should be compensated with between $100 and $75,000 each. The neighbours had complained about Sholar Farm, which houses up to 7,000 swine.
Jurors in three related cases previously decided Smithfield Foods should pay nearly $550 million in penalties, which were reduced under a state law limiting punishment.
Smithfield Foods said it believes the lawsuits are an abuse of the legal system.
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