Hog odor lawsuits are nothing new, but the debate has new traction in Missouri, where some say flawed right-to-farm legislation encourages multimillion-dollar lawsuits. Kansas City attorney Charlie Speer has won almost $10 million from Premium Standard Farms and its affiliates in agricultural nuisance trials since 1999, and this summer praised a $1.2 million settlement with an unrelated southwest Missouri operation as having "set the bar" for future settlements.
September 23, 2009 at 12:00 AM
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The original version of this story was published on Law.Com
A faint rotten-egg smell drifts off a covered lagoon a hundred yards from a well-traveled Missouri gravel road. It’s not an overpowering odor, but it’s there.
Aside from a few dirt-speckled pickup trucks kicking up dust as they pass by, this battleground — ground zero in what some see as a high-stakes fight for the future of Missouri agriculture — is calm.
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