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NC Appeals Court rules again for Pender County in solar farm dispute
The North Carolina Court of Appeals has ruled for a second time in favor of Pender County in a dispute over a proposed 2,300-acre solar farm.
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Top NC court will not take Burke County chicken cruelty case
North Carolina’s highest court will not consider an animal cruelty lawsuit targeting a Burke County chicken producer. The decision Friday allows lower court rulings to stand favoring Case Farms.
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Winning defendant asks top NC court to reject chicken cruelty case
A Burke County chicken producer targeted in a recent animal cruelty lawsuit is urging the North Carolina Supreme Court to reject the case. Lower courts have ruled in favor of the producer, Case Farms, and against the activist group Legal Impact for Chickens.
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Petition seeks top NC court’s review of chicken cruelty case
An animal rights group is petitioning the North Carolina Supreme Court to hear its lawsuit against a Burke County chicken producer. A unanimous state Appeals Court panel ruled against the group in May.
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NC Appeals Court rules for chicken producer in animal cruelty dispute
The North Carolina Court of Appeals has ruled in favor of a chicken production operation and against animal activists in a dispute over state animal cruelty rules. The unanimous opinion Wednesday from a three-judge Appeals Court panel affirmed a trial judge’s decision to dismiss the lawsuit from a group called Legal Impact for Chickens.
Opinion
Top NC court could blunt sue-and-settle environmental schemes
A case pitting North Carolina's environmental regulators against the Farm Bureau could have far-reaching impacts.
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Top NC court to decide fate of challenged animal waste permit conditions
The North Carolina Supreme Court must decide whether three challenged conditions in state animal waste permits are state government rules. If so, those conditions would be thrown out because they didn’t go through the state’s rulemaking process.
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NC Chamber, NFIB back Farm Bureau in legal battle over animal waste rules
Two of North Carolina’s leading business lobbying groups are supporting the NC Farm Bureau in its legal battle against state regulators’ proposed animal waste permit requirements. The NC Chamber and National Federation of Independent Business filed a joint document Friday with the state Supreme Court.
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NC Appeals Court tackles animal cruelty lawsuit targeting poultry operation
North Carolina’s second-highest court wrestled Tuesday with a lawsuit targeting a Burke County poultry operation for alleged violations of the state’s animal cruelty law. Defendant Case Farms argues that an exemption in state law protects its operations from the suit.
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Appeals Court to reconsider ruling in Pender County solar farm dispute
The North Carolina Court of Appeals will revisit its recent decision favoring Pender County in a dispute over a proposed 2,300-acre solar farm. An order Friday blocked the court’s initial decision favoring the county over the solar farm developer.
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Farm, pork, poultry groups take interest in animal cruelty case at NC Appeals Court
The North Carolina Farm Bureau and groups representing pork and poultry producers are weighing in as the state Court of Appeals considers an animal cruelty lawsuit from Burke County. The suit targets Case Farms chicken operations in Morganton.
Opinion
Deference reform attracts attention from business, farm, free-market groups
Groups with no direct connection to a fired Winston-Salem State University professor's legal dispute have taken an interest in its outcome.
