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Three Decades of Legal Oddities | Raleigh News
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A jaw-dropping 2018 jury verdict awarded $470 million to neighbors of a hog farm in Pender County, sparking fears of a legal avalanche against agriculture — though state caps slashed the payout. Meanwhile, in 1966, North Carolina Governor Dan Moore blasted the KKK for terrorizing Raleigh’s Nash Square, calling them “swaggering demagogues” who chased Black people and kicked out a “crippled youth.” Then, in 1926, a Goldsboro man walked free after his lawyer read love letters to another man — sending the courtroom into laughter and proving that even romance can be a courtroom wildcard.
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