US Supreme Court Won't Hear Poultry Firm's Appeal

[LeighAnn]

It's too late to post this in LBN, but I didn't see it there.

From the Charlotte Observer:

The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday rejected poultry processor House of Raeford Inc.'s bid to stave off criminal charges accusing the North Carolina-based company of willfully releasing turkey remains into waterways in violation of federal clean water law.

The high court denied the company's request to consider arguments that it can't be prosecuted because it's already paid nearly $1 million in pollution fines and shouldn't be punished twice. The Supreme Court's decision means the case goes back to a federal district court in Winston-Salem for trial.

A federal grand jury indicted House of Raeford and Raeford turkey processing plant manager Gregory Steenblock in 2009 on charges of violating the federal Clean Water Act. An indictment accuses the company and Steenblock of knowingly bypassing the plant's water treatment system 14 times in 2005 and 2006, dumping turkey feathers, blood and internal organs into a municipal sewage treatment plant.


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Federal prosecutors said the company's Raeford processing plant couldn't handle the daily flow of 1 million gallons of wastewater and sent untreated water to the city's municipal sewage treatment works.

Read more: http://www.charlotteobserver.com/2011/10/03/2661333/us-supreme-court-wont-hear-poultry.html#storylink=misearch#ixzz1ZspfdBEK

[OffWithTheirHeads]

1. What the fuck is wrong with these people.

I just don't get the God of money who thinks fuck everybody as long as I am making money. Bring on the Guillotine!

[Systematic Chaos]

2. What you said.

And my offer to hose down the gallows afterwards remains open.

[Ikonoklast]

3. Libertarians should love this, this is what they want.

No regulations on businesses, if you live downstream from a turkey processing plant and tons of turkey guts are floating by every week, it's your problem for living there. You should move if you don't like it, too bad your real estate value is shit due to the massive stench.

They just never think it will happen to them where they live.