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(York County Sheriff’s Department via Courthouse News)
RICHMOND, Va. (CN) After Josh Grose died in the South Carolina jail where he was being held on a 2013 murder charge, a spokesman for the York County Sheriff’s Department quickly assured the public that it had been a suicide.
But Michael Billioni, an employee at the detention center, saw a video that painted a different picture.
“The video showed Detention Officer James Moore punch a naked and restrained detainee twelve times while other officers in the room did nothing to stop him,” Billioni said in a brief to the Fourth Circuit last year.
The retail sector is bouncing back from the pandemic with new businesses opening and increased sales forecast. Roy Williams, president and CEO of the Greater Oklahoma City Chamber, noted two programs launched last year that helped small retailers stay in business. The chamber, in partnership with the city’s commercial districts, kicked off the Stand Tall Shop Small for OKC campaign in June. The chamber also joined the Alliance for Economic Development of Oklahoma City as partners with the city to implement the Small Business Continuity Program, which offered business owners and nonprofits with 100 or fewer full-time employees COVID-19 disaster relief funds. The program shined light on the challenges small businesses were facing, Williams said.
darcy maulsby/ThinkstockPhotos Judge Agee’s dissent in this court case loss should be read by all lawyers defending large-scale livestock farms.
One of the three circuit judges in the Smithfield Murphy-Brown court case loss (reported here last week) was Steven Agee, a former justice of the Supreme Court of Virginia. He was appointed to the 4
th Circuit Court of Appeals by President George W. Bush. He graduated from the University of Virginia Law School and has a master’s in law from New York University.
Why am I telling you about Judge Agee? Here’s what he said about the majority opinion in the Smithfield case:
The agricultural world changed November 19, 2020, and few in our business noticed.
Murphy-Brown, a subsidiary of Smithfield Foods, lost a major case on November 19, 2020. With Thanksgiving activities and election allegations, little attention was paid to this loss other than a few environmental groups and farm publications (full case summary here).
Federal judge J. Harvie Wilkinson III, appointed by President Reagan, indicted the entire industrialized hog industry, saying, “It is past time to acknowledge the full harms that the unreformed practices of hog farming are inflicting.”
Judge Stephanie Thacker, an Obama appointee, wrote the majority opinion. Judge Steven Agee, appointed by President George W. Bush, defended Smithfield and Murphy-Brown, indicating he would have ordered a new trial.