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Corporate Counsel

How Tractor Supply General Counsel Noni Ellison Drives ESG Efforts

"I thought it was important to distinguish the legal support function for our company from the sustainability framework," general counsel Noni Ellison said.
8 minute read

The Recorder

Monsanto Wins Roundup Defense Verdict in Trial Over Child's Aggressive Cancer

In a rare win for Monsanto, a Los Angeles jury found that its Roundup pesticide was not a "substantial factor" in causing a 10-year-old to suffer from an aggressive form of cancer called Burkitt's lymphoma. Tuesday's verdict comes in a bifurcated trial in which jurors had to decide causation in the first phase.
3 minute read

Daily Business Review

Agriculture Commissioner Targets Crop Dumping by Mexico

Agriculture Commissioner Nikki Fried says she will continue to push the federal government for trade protections and the state Legislature to increase money to market Florida-grown produce.
3 minute read

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.
6 minute read

Daily Business Review

Georgia Wins Fresh Ruling in Water War With Florida, Alabama

Environmental groups and Alabama had sued the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers in 2017, saying the agency's plans held too much water in reservoirs in the Apalachicola-Chattahoochee-Flint basin and that it should release more for hydropower and wildlife.
3 minute read

New York Law Journal

2nd Circuit Takes Cue From NY's Top Court in Tossing Farmworkers' Claims Against Occidental

A three-judge panel of the Manhattan-based appeals court adopted the New York Court of Appeals' answers to two certified questions of law.
3 minute read

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.
4 minute read

Litigation Daily

Litigators of the Week: The Morrison & Foerster Duo Who Went on the Offensive for a Client Targeted in a Short and Distort Attack

Scott Llewellyn and Michael Birnbaum of Morrison & Foerster unmasked the short-seller behind an attack article posted on financial website Seeking Alpha targeting their client Farmland Partners Inc. They also recovered a multiple of the profits the short-seller made when the price of FPI stock dropped 39% on the day of publication.
8 minute read

National Law Journal

Justice Thomas Calls Federal Stance on Marijuana 'Contradictory' and 'Unstable'

"This contradictory and unstable state of affairs strains basic principles of federalism and conceals traps for the unwary," Justice Clarence Thomas wrote of the conflict between state and federal marijuana laws.
3 minute read

Law.com

What Do SCOTUS Rulings on College Athletes, Goldman Sachs Say About Class Actions? Plus: Judge's Order Would Cut Fees in Roundup MDL

Lawyers on both sides had positive reactions to a decision to remand a securities action against the investment bank for further review.
7 minute read

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