PRIVACY MATTERS: DO EXISTINGLAWS PROTECT PROPERTY OWNERS, OR IS AN OVERHAUL NEEDED?

摘要

The day an airplane flew over Alan and Kristin Hudson's 200-acre farm changed their lives forever. The Maryland farmers were accused of creating a long-standing manure pile that discharged pollutants into drainage ditches, which is a violation of theClean Water Act. The New York-based advocacy group that snapped the photos, the Waterkeeper Alliance, mistook a legally obtained pile of biosolids for chicken manure. Althoughthe case had no merit, the group was determined to make an example of the Hudsons (who raise birds for Perdue) and pushed forward with a three-vear-lone lawsuit.