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By Amanda Bronstad | April 29, 2021
Monsanto fired back Wednesday at what it called "inflammatory rhetoric" that it paid a Roundup plaintiff to bring an Eleventh Circuit appeal of a favorable ruling on federal preemption. In an opposition filed in court, its lawyer accused lead plaintiffs attorneys of considering a similar "high-low settlement" in another Roundup case now before the Ninth Circuit.
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By Amanda Bronstad | April 23, 2021
Plaintiffs attorneys that got Roundup verdicts have accused parent company Bayer of paying its opponent in a Georgia case to appeal a favorable federal preemption ruling to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit. Bayer, which has raised federal preemption arguments in other Roundup appeals in California, defended its actions as transparent and the settlement as appropriate.
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By Ross Todd | April 22, 2021
The company has already argued one appeal in the Ninth Circuit claiming that it had no duty to warn Roundup users about cancer risks since federal law governs herbicide labeling. A Georgia doctor whose state law failure to warn claims were tossed on federal preemption grounds is now appealing in the 11th Circuit.
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By Amanda Bronstad | April 14, 2021
Lawyers who crafted the $2 billion class action settlement with Bayer to resolve future claims over Monsanto's Roundup have fired back at a host of objectors, defending a settlement they say that "will save lives."
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By Ellen Bardash | April 12, 2021
Delaware Superior Court Judge Craig A. Karsnitz approved putting $16.25 million of the settlement amount toward the plaintiffs' attorney fees and litigation expenses.
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By Alaina Lancaster | March 19, 2021
The decision will end the litigation brought by Dewayne Johnson against Bayer's Monsanto over claims its Roundup pesticide caused his non-Hodgkin lymphoma.
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By Suzette Parmley | March 17, 2021
In a dispute over cattle contracts, a federal judge ruled that a pair of cattle sellers were defrauded by defendants who acted with an intermediary in what he described as a "cattle-shifting Ponzi scheme" and granted summary judgment on their behalf for money owed.
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By Amanda Bronstad | March 5, 2021
More than a dozen law firms opposed the proposed class action settlement, the second attempt by Bayer to resolve lawsuits while keeping Roundup on store shelves. Public Citizen and the American Association for Justice also filed amicus briefs opposing the deal.
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By Amanda Bronstad | March 3, 2021
U.S. District Judge Vince Chhabria appeared likely to trim an estimated $800 million in common benefit fees to lead counsel. He even questioned the need for a common benefit order at all. "The fact that something is repeatedly done in MDLs doesn't mean courts have authority to do it," he said at a Wednesday hearing.
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By Amanda Bronstad | February 3, 2021
The class action settlement, announced Wednesday, includes a $1.325 billion compensation fund program under which Roundup users can make claims for a period of four years. No such fund existed in a similar $1.1 billion deal that lawyers were forced to withdraw last summer after a federal judge raised numerous concerns.
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