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Litigation Daily

First Trial Linking Monsanto's Roundup to Cancer Set to Open

Opening statements in the first trial over whether Monsanto's Roundup herbicide caused a user to get cancer are set to begin on Monday in San Francisco.
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The Recorder

Trial Set to Open in Case Linking Monsanto's Roundup to Cancer

Opening statements in the first trial over whether Monsanto's Roundup herbicide caused a user to get cancer are set to begin on Monday in San Francisco.
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The Legal Intelligencer

Gathering Agreements Are Executory Contracts That May be Rejected in Bankruptcy

On May 25, the Second Circuit upheld the New York district court's decision concluding that certain midstream gathering agreements were executory contracts, subject to rejection in a bankruptcy proceeding.
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Daily Report Online

11th Circuit Chops $1.7M Penalty in Suit by Cotton Trade Group vs. Farmers

This is a case about cotton. B.B. King once called cotton "a force of nature"—"[t]here's a poetry to it," he wrote, "'hoeing and growing cotton,'” Judge Kevin Newsom said. “Here, the poetry of the hoeing and growing has given way to a nasty little feud over the selling.”
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Daily Business Review

No Soundtrack, But King of the Blues Gets 11th Circuit Nod in King Cotton Case

This is a case about cotton in the Deep South. B.B. King once called cotton "a force of nature." But Judge Kevin Newsom said the poetry of cotton "has given way to a nasty little feud."
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Litigation Daily

Litigators of the Week: Cracking the 10-Year Egg Antitrust Case

Antitrust class actions almost never go to trial. But three companies trusted their legal teams to get them through—and the lawyers delivered with an across-the-board win against some of the most prominent plaintiffs lawyers in the country.
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The Legal Intelligencer

#MeToo?: Sexual Harassment and Low-Wage Immigrant Workers

The entertainment industry has succeeded in drawing attention to the ways that sexual assault and harassment can become pervasive when employees have limited options for reporting abuse and employers have the power to blacklist.
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Litigation Daily

Litigators of the Week: Cracking the 10-Year Egg Antitrust Case

Antitrust class actions almost never go to trial. But three companies trusted their legal teams to get them through—and the lawyers delivered with an across-the-board win against some of the most prominent plaintiffs lawyers in the country.
4 minute read

Pro Mid Market

Who Got the Work: Egg-cellent News for an Egg Farm, 37 Cats and 5 Parrots

 Porter Wright Morris & Arthur helped secure a major defense win for Seymour, Indiana-based Rose Acre Farms in a $3 billion federal antitrust…
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Litigation Daily

Daily Dicta: Egg on Their Faces: Plaintiffs Giants Come up Empty in $3B Antitrust Trial

Ten co-defendants settled for a combined $150 million, but the trio of egg producers left standing were willing to risk everything by going to trial. Their gamble paid off.
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