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By Michael A. Mora | October 1, 2020
The state's original offer of compensation to homeowners was a $100 Walmart gift card for the first citrus tree cut and $55 for each subsequently killed tree.
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By Amanda Bronstad | September 24, 2020
U.S. District Judge Vince Chhabria, at a Zoom hearing Thursday, said he would retain a stay on the Roundup litigation until Nov. 2, after which he could remand cases for trials, possibly in California, Nebraska, North Carolina or Illinois.
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By Amanda Bronstad | September 17, 2020
In a filing Thursday, Bayer's lawyers said they had settled thousands of lawsuits over Monsanto's Roundup after a federal judge raised questions about a $10.9 billion deal that failed to resolve all the litigation.
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By Amanda Bronstad | September 17, 2020
In a filing on Thursday, Bayer's lawyers said they had settled thousands of lawsuits over Monsanto's Roundup after U.S. District Judge Vince Chhabria raised questions about a $10.9 billion deal that failed to resolve all the litigation.
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By Amanda Bronstad | September 1, 2020
The petitions, filed by Bayer, which owns Monsanto, and lawyers for Dewayne "Lee" Johnson, who won a $289 million verdict in 2018, are the first before the California Supreme Court from among three Roundup cases that have gone to trial.
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By Amanda Bronstad | August 27, 2020
Two months after Bayer agreed to resolve thousands of lawsuits brought over Monsanto's Roundup herbicide, lawyers told a federal judge Thursday that most of the settlements have unraveled. U.S. District Judge Vince Chhabria, who oversees the Roundup MDL, gave lawyers until Sept. 24 but said he might lift a stay on litigation and set cases for trial.
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By Amanda Bronstad | August 27, 2020
"What I am concerned about is that Monsanto may be manipulating this litigation process to its advantage somehow," said U.S. District Judge Vince Chhabria, who oversees the Roundup MDL. He gave lawyers until Sept. 24 but said he might lift a stay on litigation and set cases for trial.
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By Amanda Bronstad | August 26, 2020
Bayer, which owns Monsanto, said it agreed in June to pay up to $10.9 billion to resolve Roundup claims "without regard to race or any other demographics." But in a new civil rights lawsuit, attorney Ben Crump said failures to warn fell more heavily on Black farmers with smaller acreage.
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By Amanda Bronstad | August 26, 2020
The suit's filing comes one day before a hearing in San Francisco federal court before U.S. District Judge Vince Chhabria, who is overseeing the multidistrict litigation over Roundup. Chhabria has asked lawyers to explain why they have not dismissed lawsuits after reaching the settlements.
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By Amanda Bronstad | July 20, 2020
A California appeals court upheld the 2018 verdict but reduced the award after concluding the plaintiff was not entitled to such a high amount of future compensatory damages.
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