By Amanda Bronstad | July 15, 2019
U.S. District Judge Vince Chhabria of the Northern District of California, who refused to overturn the verdict Friday, found that Monsanto Co.'s conduct was sufficient to warrant punitive damages of $20 million—a ratio of four times the compensatory damages.
By Amanda Bronstad | July 2, 2019
U.S. District Judge Vince Chhabria appeared poised to reduce the jury's award in the second Roundup trial, but said there was a 'fair amount of evidence" justifying punitive damages.
By Amanda Bronstad | June 18, 2019
Monsanto, now owned by Bayer, filed dual motions Monday to reverse the verdict, citing several instances of “inflammatory argument” by plaintiffs' attorneys, among other things.
By Amanda Bronstad | May 21, 2019
U.S. District Judge Vince Chhabria on Tuesday found that Jennifer Moore “intentionally joined in the bad faith misconduct” that prompted him to sanction lead plaintiffs counsel Aimee Wagstaff in the second trial over Roundup.
By Amanda Bronstad | May 15, 2019
Lawyers for Bayer, which owns Monsanto Co., told reporters Wednesday that the legal fight over the safety of its Roundup herbicide is far from over.
By Ross Todd | May 13, 2019
The verdict marked the third time that a Bay Area jury has held Monsanto's blockbuster herbicide responsible of causing cancer in humans.
By Amanda Bronstad | March 27, 2019
After one day of deliberations, jurors in San Francisco found that Monsanto, now owned by Bayer AG, was liable for plaintiff Edwin Hardeman's non-Hodgkin lymphoma. The award includes $75 million in punitive damages.
By Ross Todd | March 26, 2019
Lawyers on opposite sides of a lawsuit claiming that Monsanto's Roundup weedkiller causes cancer took turns calling each other's take on the case "offensive" during closing arguments Tuesday morning in San Francisco federal court.
By Ross Todd | March 21, 2019
Hogan Lovells partners Neal Katyal and Sean Marotta have signed on to represent a Colorado company trying to recover industrial hemp that Idaho police seized as contraband in January.
By Ross Todd | March 19, 2019
Tuesday's verdict is a significant blow to Monsanto parent company Bayer AG, which last year was hit with a $289 million verdict in San Francisco Superior Court in a Roundup case outside the MDL proceedings.
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