The N C House has approved legislation that would limit the amount of damages neighbors could collect in nuisance lawsuits against hog farms and other agricultural operations But a key amendment stopped the bill from applying to the hundreds of lawsuits already filed against the world's largest pork producer Smithfield Foods Carolina Journal Editor-in-Chief Rick Henderson analyzes the debate over new limits on nuisance lawsuits North Carolina has seen dramatic improvements in recent years in the libertarian Cato Institute's report ranking Freedom in the States The report's co-authors are William Ruger vice president for policy and research at the Charles
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