By Ross Todd | November 3, 2023
After a month-long trial in a case accusing Sanderson Farms of conspiring with competitors to fix the price of chicken, federal jurors in Chicago deliberated just nine hours before returning for the company and its lawyers at Proskauer Rose led by Chris Ondeck, Kyle Casazza and Colin Cabral.
By Lauren Briggerman, Kirby Behre and Helen Marsh | May 31, 2023
Since 2016, when the DOJ's Antitrust Division first warned it would take the novel step of criminally investigating and prosecuting alleged no poach agreements, the agency has had a devastating track record: Zero convictions and acquittals of 13 individuals and one company across four trials.
By Ross Todd | February 24, 2023
Phyllis Jones, Michael Imbroscio, David Sneed and their colleagues at Covington & Burling convinced a federal judge in Texas to pull the plug on a trial against The Hain Celestial Co. last week due to a lack of expert evidence on general causation.
By Ross Todd | August 19, 2022
BASF paid €7.4 billion to purchase several assets carved out of Bayer's crop science business. Last week an arbitration panel at the ICC turned back BASF's claims that Bayer hadn't properly disclosed certain costs for the divested businesses, including for personnel.
By Ross Todd | June 24, 2022
George Lombardi of Winston & Strawn and Jennifer Lee of Husch Blackwell led a trial team that won a defense verdict in state court last week in a case where an Oregon man claimed the herbicide caused his non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, marking Monsanto's fourth straight win in Roundup cases.
By Ross Todd | April 15, 2022
Federal prosecutors announced late last month that after a second mistrial in their criminal case against 10 executives at poultry companies they were dismissing all charges against half the defendants.
By Ross Todd | July 2, 2021
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.
By Ross Todd | April 22, 2021
The company has already argued one appeal in the Ninth Circuit claiming that it had no duty to warn Roundup users about cancer risks since federal law governs herbicide labeling. A Georgia doctor whose state law failure to warn claims were tossed on federal preemption grounds is now appealing in the 11th Circuit.
By Amanda Bronstad | August 27, 2020
"What I am concerned about is that Monsanto may be manipulating this litigation process to its advantage somehow," said U.S. District Judge Vince Chhabria, who oversees the Roundup MDL. He gave lawyers until Sept. 24 but said he might lift a stay on litigation and set cases for trial.
By Ross Todd | July 8, 2020
U.S. District Judge Vince Chhabria, who is overseeing the multidistrict litigation over claims that the herbicide Roundup causes cancer, can craft a question that will waylay even the best lawyer.
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