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August 16, 2021 | Law.com

Bayer's SCOTUS Petition Aims to Reel In Future Roundup Lawsuits Against Monsanto

Monday's petition before the U.S. Supreme Court, in the only federal Roundup trial, seeks to reverse an $80 million verdict based on federal preemption and admission of plaintiffs' experts and is among Bayer's key avenues to resolving the litigation over Monsanto's pesticide.
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August 16, 2021 | The Recorder

Bayer's SCOTUS Petition Aims to Reel in Future Roundup Lawsuits Against Monsanto

The petition also challenges U.S. District Judge Vince Chhabria's admission of plaintiffs' experts in the underlying case, which is the only federal Roundup verdict and the first bellwether case from among 3,800 cases in multidistrict litigation in the Northern District of California.
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July 09, 2021 | Law.com

Paraquat MDL Leadership Team Has 11 Women and 5 Men

Nancy Rosenstengel, chief judge of the Southern District of Illinois who is overseeing the multidistrict litigation, appointed 16 plaintiffs lawyers, including four attorneys of color, to spearhead more than 150 lawsuits alleging herbicide paraquat causes Parkinson's disease.
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June 22, 2021 | Insurance Coverage Law Center

Roundup Fee Order Granted Despite 'Totally Out of Control' MDL Compensation System

In a recent order, U.S. District Judge Vince Chhabria significantly scaled back the request, originally estimated to give $800 million to lead counsel in the Roundup multidistrict litigation. He also found the common fund doctrine inapplicable in the cases and called on a federal rules committee to consider new methods to compensate lead counsel in MDLs.
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June 21, 2021 | The Recorder

Judge Grants Roundup Fee Order, Despite 'Totally Out of Control' MDL Compensation System

In a Monday order, U.S. District Judge Vince Chhabria significantly scaled back the request, originally estimated to give $800 million to lead counsel in the Roundup multidistrict litigation. He also found the common fund doctrine inapplicable in the cases and called on a federal rules committee to consider new methods to compensate lead counsel in MDLs.
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May 25, 2021 | Law.com

Paraquat Cases Pivot to Trial, Possible Multidistrict Litigation

The legal fight over the herbicide paraquat is coming to a head, with the first trial set to begin next week. On Thursday, the U.S. Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation plans to hear arguments on whether to coordinate more than 70 lawsuits brought against Chevron and Syngenta over the herbicide.
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May 05, 2021 | The Recorder

'This Settlement Will Kill People': Objectors Persist in Critiques of Roundup Class Action Accord

An April 30 supplemental brief was filed for 93 law firms and 167 lawyers objecting to the $2 billion settlement. Public Justice and Public Citizen filed their own supplemental briefs, focused on several issues, including the release of punitive damage claims. An approval hearing is set for May 19.
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May 05, 2021 | Law.com

First Federal Bellwether Trial Opens in West Virginia. Plus: Objectors Dig In Over $2 Billion Roundup Settlement Proposal

Distributors and drug makers are still working on a proposed $26 billion settlement with lead plaintiffs' attorneys in the opioid MDL. So why did the West Virginia plaintiffs still go to trial?
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April 29, 2021 | Connecticut Law Tribune

Monsanto Rejects Claim of 'Brazen Manipulation' of Judicial System

Monsanto responded Wednesday to "inflammatory rhetoric" that it paid a Roundup plaintiff to appeal a favorable ruling on federal preemption.
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April 29, 2021 | National Law Journal

Monsanto Fires Back at 'Inflammatory Rhetoric' Over Roundup Appeal

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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