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by: CURTIS KILLMAN World Staff Writer Friday, October 09, 2009 10/9/2009 4:47:47 AM A dozen off-duty Tulsa police officers, most of them detectives, drove the back roads of eastern Oklahoma for months, taking thousands of pictures and generating thousands of reports based on what they observed, all

by: JUSTIN JUOZAPAVICIUS Associated Press Writer Friday, September 18, 2009; The Cherokee Nation is appealing a federal judge’s ruling that blocked the tribe from joining Oklahoma’s water pollution lawsuit against 11 Arkansas poultry companies. Cherokee Nation Attorney General Diane Hammons filed a notice of appeal Thursday that

by: CURTIS KILLMAN World Staff Writer Tuesday, September 15, 2009; A federal judge on Tuesday rejected a request by the Cherokee Nation to intervene in a lawsuit involving the state and several poultry companies. In turning back the tribe, District Judge Gregory Frizzell said he would have

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Published: July 23, 2009 in the Daily Oklahoman TULSA — Oklahoma can’t pursue monetary damages in its environmental lawsuit against a dozen Arkansas poultry companies because it didn’t name the Cherokee Nation as a plaintiff, a federal judge ruled Wednesday in a major

Money wrung from poultry lawsuit BY ROBERT J. SMITH Posted on Thursday, July 23, 2009 A federal judge on Wednesday forbade Oklahoma Attorney General Drew Edmondson from pursuing $611 million in damages against Arkansas poultry companies because he failed to include the Cherokee Nation in a lawsuit.

NORTHWEST ARKANSAS TIMES, written by Robert Smith; Posted on Friday, May 15, 2009. Jurors found in favor of poultry companies on trial in Washington County on Thursday. Poultry companies George’s Farms, Tyson Foods and Simmons Foods were cleared of charges levied in a suit in which Michael

BY ROBERT J. SMITH and published in the Arkansas Democrat Gazette. Posted on Thursday, May 14, 2009 URL: A lower court’s decision to let farmers keep using poultry litter as fertilizer in the Illinois River watershed was correct, the 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Denver

BY ROBERT J. SMITH Posted on Friday, May 15, 2009 URL: One of eight poultry companies sued over pollution in the Illinois River watershed wants the U.S. District Court in Tulsa to approve a settlement that would drop the firm from the lawsuit. Willow Brook Foods Inc.,

FAYETTEVILLE A judge dismissed Peterson Farms from a lawsuit alleging chicken litter caused a Prairie Grove man’s cancer. Smith ruled there’s not sufficient evidence any of the four defendant companies acted with intent to cause harm, or with reckless disregard, so Michael “Blu” Green and his parents

BY STACEY ROBERTS Posted on Sunday, March 15, 2009, Arkansas Democrat Gazette. Some Arkansas contract chicken farmers find themselves squeezed between the needs of a poultry company fighting for survival and the demands of personal creditors. Texas-based Pilgrim’s Pride Corp. filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in December