Huge Win for Indiana Hog Farmers

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Beginning in late 2009 and early 2010, attorneys Richard Hailey of Indianapolis, Ind., Charles Speer and Britt Bieri of Kansas City, Mo. and Richard Middleton of Savannah, Ga., brought five lawsuits based on negligence and nuisance in Randolph County, Indiana, on behalf of neighbors against Maxwell Farms of Indiana and several individual farmers. 

In January, the cases were dismissed in a summary judgment by a Randolph County circuit court judge.

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