By Cheryl Miller | June 28, 2021
"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.
By Amanda Bronstad | June 21, 2021
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.
By Ellen Bardash | June 8, 2021
Dozens of lawsuits alleging the herbicide paraquat is tied to Parkinson's disease will be consolidated in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Illinois, the U.S. Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation has decided.
By Amanda Bronstad | May 27, 2021
Federal judges are asking more questions prior to granting preliminary approval of class action settlements, partly due to 2018 rules changes, but also as lawyers have become more creative in how they structure such agreements. One example: The $2 billion Roundup settlement that a judge rejected this week.
By Amanda Bronstad | May 26, 2021
In a six-page order on Wednesday, U.S. District Judge Vince Chhabria of the Northern District of California flagged many of the same concerns he raised at a lengthy hearing last week. "In sum, the settlement proposed by these attorneys would accomplish a lot for Monsanto," he wrote.
By Amanda Bronstad | May 5, 2021
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.
By Amanda Bronstad | April 29, 2021
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.
By Amanda Bronstad | April 23, 2021
Plaintiffs attorneys that got Roundup verdicts have accused parent company Bayer of paying its opponent in a Georgia case to appeal a favorable federal preemption ruling to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit. Bayer, which has raised federal preemption arguments in other Roundup appeals in California, defended its actions as transparent and the settlement as appropriate.
By Alaina Lancaster | March 19, 2021
The decision will end the litigation brought by Dewayne Johnson against Bayer's Monsanto over claims its Roundup pesticide caused his non-Hodgkin lymphoma.
By Amanda Bronstad | March 5, 2021
More than a dozen law firms opposed the proposed class action settlement, the second attempt by Bayer to resolve lawsuits while keeping Roundup on store shelves. Public Citizen and the American Association for Justice also filed amicus briefs opposing the deal.
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