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Tuesday, September 03, 2013

Chicken Manure Lawsuit A Teachable Moment For UMd Law School

The sad saga of the Hudson Family farm continues.

You remember the Hudsons, who raise Cornish hens for Perdue and also a herd of beef cattle on 300 acres near Berlin on Maryland’s Lower Eastern Shore.

Alan and Kristin Hudson got sued by the New York-based Waterkeeper Alliance, which hoped to win a landmark case holding Perdue liable for water pollution in drainage ditches caused by chicken manure from a subcontractor like the Hudsons.

The plaintiffs, represented in part by the University of Maryland’s Environmental Law Clinic, embarrassed themselves. It was such a botched job that it makes an ideal case study (perhaps at the rival University of Baltimore Law School).
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2 comments:

Anonymous said...

I wonder if this judge is related to the kook enviromentalist in Centreville I had a few run in's with.

Anonymous said...

They need a new judge. One who can decide that frivolous lawsuits without proper evidence deserve punishment, as well as judges who think they don't.