United States Tenth Circuit

In an action against a food producer for violation of various environmental laws, the denial of a preliminary injunction is affirmed, where Plaintiffs failed to link the poultry waste produced by Defendant with potentially harmful bacteria, and the District Court did not abuse its discretion by excluding certain expert testimony as unreliable.

Appellate Information

• Decided 05/13/2009
• Published 05/13/2009

Judges

• PAUL KELLY, JR., Circuit Judge., Before KELLY, EBEL, and MURPHY, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Tenth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Frederick C. Baker of Motley, Rice, LLC (W.A. Drew Edmondson, Attorney General, Kelly H. Burch, J. Trevor Hammons, Daniel P. Lennington, Assistant Attorneys General for the State of Oklahoma, Oklahoma City, OK;  M. David Riggs, Richard T. Garren, Robert A. Nance, and David P. Page of Riggs, Abney, Neal, Turpen, Orbison & Lewis, Tulsa, OK;  Louis W. Bullock and Robert M. Blakemore of Bullock, Bullock & Blakemore, PLLC, Tulsa, OK, with him on the briefs), Mount Pleasant, SC, for Plaintiffs-Appellants.


• For Appellees:
  
• Jay T. Jorgensen of Sidley Austin LLP (Mark D. Hopson, Gordon D. Todd of Sidley Austin, LLP, Washington, DC;  Robert W. George, Vice President & Associate General Counsel, Bryan Burns and Timothy T. Jones of Tyson Foods, Inc., Springdale, AR;  Michael R. Bond of Kutak Rock, LLP, Fayetteville, AR;  Patrick M. Ryan, Stephen L. Jantzen of Ryan, Whaley & Coldiron, PC, Oklahoma City, OK;  Woodson W. Bassett III, Gary V. Weeks, James M. Graves, and K.C. Dupps Tucker of Bassett Law Firm, Fayetteville, AR, Randall E. Rose and George W. Owens of Owens Law Firm, PC, Tulsa, OK;  Robert P. Redemann of Perrine, McGivern, Redemann, Reid, Berry & Taylor, PLLC, Tulsa, OK;  Robert E. Sanders and Stephen Williams of Young Williams PA, Jackson, MS;  R. Thomas Lay of Kerr, Irvine, Rhodes & Ables, Oklahoma City, OK;  Jennifer S. Griffin of Lathrop & Gage, LC, Jefferson City, MO;  John H. Tucker and Theresa Noble Hill of Rhodes, Hieronymus, Jones, Tucker & Gable, PLLC, Tulsa, OK;  Delmar R. Ehrich, Bruce Jones, and Krisann C. Kleibacker Lee of Faegre & Benson, LLP, Minneapolis, MN;  John R. Elrod, Vicki Bronson, and P. Joshua Wisley of Conner & Winters, LLP, Fayetteville, AR;  Bruce W. Freeman and D. Richard Funk of Conner & Winters, LLP, Tulsa, OK;  A. Scott McDaniel, Nicole M. Longwell, and Philip D. Hixon of McDaniel, Hixon, Longwell & Acord, PLLC, Tulsa, OK, with him on the brief) Washington, DC, for Defendants-Appellees., Dustin McDaniel, Attorney General, Justin Allen, Chief Deputy Attorney General, Charles L. Moulton, Sr. Assistant Attorney General, and Kendra Akin Jones, Assistant Attorney General, Little Rock, AR, filed an amicus curiae brief for the State of Arkansas, in support of Defendants-Appellees.