A Broward Circuit judge has ruled chemical manufacturer DuPont engaged in “a deliberate scheme to interfere” with rulings in more than a decade of litigation and struck its defenses in a pair of multimillion-dollar cases over the destruction of shellfish grown by Ecuadorean shrimp farms.
Judge Charles Greene found DuPont committed fraud that “permeated the entire litigation” when it concealed information about the creation of a new Benlate fungicide formula that was not reviewed or approved by U.S. and Ecuadorean authorities and lied about the fungicide’s registration status. DuPont had claimed its U.S. formula registration barred the farmers’ claims.
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