Judge begins trial over poultry farm permit denial
VALPARAISO, Nebraska (Lincoln Journal Star) A judge is set to hear a weeklong trial in an appeal over the Lancaster County Board’s denial of a permit to run a large broiler chicken facility on a farm about a mile from Raymond Central Junior-Senior High School.
“Sunset Poultry’s proposed facility not only meets, but exceeds, the standards for a special-use permit,” attorney Mary Jacobsen, who represents landowners Wayne and Charlene Greve, said in an opening statement Monday.
The business is seeking to build eight barns housing about 380,000 broiler chickens to be raised for the Costco processing plant in Fremont.
By Leisa Boley Hellwarth, a dairy farmer and attorney near Celina
This past December, the Nebraska Supreme Court issued a unanimous decision that affirmed the trial court and enabled Randy Essink to raise broilers for Lincoln Premium Poultry (LPP) who provides processed chickens to Costco. The decision hinged on a jurisdictional issue: standing.
Standing (
locus standi) is the capacity of a party to bring suit in court. A state’s statutes will determine what constitutes standing in that particular state’s courts. These typically revolve around the requirement that plaintiffs have sustained or will sustain direct injury or harm and that this harm is redressable.
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