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San Diego Jury Hits Monsanto With $332M Roundup Verdict
After four days of deliberations, a jury in San Diego County Superior Court on Tuesday awarded the verdict to Mike Dennis, who was diagnosed with a form of non-Hodgkin lymphoma at age 51.
How Proskauer's Bart Williams Helped Land a Defense Verdict in Gilead Pay-for-Delay Antitrust Case
"In antitrust cases, because these are such blockbuster drugs, the numbers are even higher, so the financial stakes are even higher, which is why many of the so-called 'pay-for-delay' cases settle," says Proskauer's Bart Williams, a finalist for the California Legal Awards' Attorney of the Year award.
'Not a Fluke': Plaintiffs Lawyers See Changing Tide in $175M Roundup Verdict
"Their defense collapses when the plaintiffs lawyers can show that the epidemiology and the science and the medicine support a finding that there is, in fact, causation," Thomas Kline said.
Plaintiffs Notch $175M Win in Philadelphia's First Roundup Trial
The verdict consisted of $25 million in compensatory damages and $150 million in punitive damages.
Monsanto's Roundup Winning Streak Ends With $1.25M Verdict
Friday's verdict by a jury in St. Louis, Missouri, was the first jury award for a Roundup plaintiff since before the COVID-19 pandemic and ends Monsanto's nine-trial winning streak.
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Philadelphia Roundup Trial Kicks Off With Claims of Additional 'Problem Chemical'
Thomas Kline of Kline & Specter, making his opening statement for the plaintiff, argued that Roundup's alleged cancer-causing properties are rooted in more than just its active ingredient.
In Trial Openings, Plaintiffs Present New Allegations About 'What's Really in the Bottle of Roundup'
Plaintiffs' lawyers focused on more than glyphosate, the active ingredient in Monsanto's Roundup, in attempting to convince jurors in two separate trials that the pesticide causes cancer.
PFAS Claim Against Chemical Giants Survives Motion to Dismiss in Maine Federal Court
"Defendant 3M conducted studies in the 1950s and early 1960s that showed its perfluorooctanesulfonate (PFOS) accumulates in the human body and is toxic," stated U.S. Magistrate Judge John C. Nivison, in his written opinion for the court. "By the 1970s, additional 3M studies revealed that its PFOS products were 'even more toxic' than previously believed.
Philadelphia's First Roundup Trial Set to Begin Amid Monsanto's Winning Streak
Jury selection in the case, captioned Caranci v. Monsanto, is set to begin Thursday, with opening statements scheduled for Oct. 10.
'I Have to Follow the Law': Judge Abruptly Ends Roundup Trial, Rules for Monsanto
St. Louis County Circuit Court Judge Brian May, on Thursday, granted Monsanto's motion for a directed verdict at the close of evidence presented by the plaintiff, Mark McCostlin.TRENDING STORIES
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