Beaver County pays pig farm protesters more than $52K in federal civil rights settlement

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By Chris Reed, St. George News | Posted – Aug. 15, 2023 at 7:21 a.m.

Direct Action Everywhere advocate Curtis Vollmar during his trespassing and disorderly conduct trial in Beaver, April 25. He will be receiving a share of $52,000 and legal fees from Beaver County after it agreed to settle a federal civil rights lawsuit. (Chris Reed, St. George News)

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ST. GEORGE — A man found guilty of criminal trespassing and disorderly conduct at a Beaver Pioneer Day event will be receiving a share of $52,000 and legal fees from Beaver County after it agreed to settle a federal civil rights lawsuit.

Curtis Vollmar was convicted in 2022 for passing out leaflets supportive of defendants who were later cleared of pig theft. He is appealing an April guilty verdict in a separate criminal case.

Vollmar is among the five plaintiffs receiving the monetary award in a settlement of a federal civil rights lawsuit brought by Vollmar, animal rights groups Direct Action Everywhere and the Utah Animal Rights Coalition, and two others who represented the two groups at the July 23, 2022, event at Beaver’s Main Street Park.

They say their First Amendment rights were violated when police forced them to vacate the park and a nearby sidewalk after distributing leaflets and speaking to residents in support of the defendants in the Smithfield Circle Four Farms trial.

Read the full article at St. George News.

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