lawsuits involving Monsanto

The third parties include Monsanto, Monsanto International and Monsanto Rus. On March 14, 2018, the court decided to postpone the preliminary hearing on the lawsuit of the German company until April 11. In January 2018, head of the FAS Igor Artemyev met with the management of Bayer and the parties ...

SAN FRANCISCO, CA, April 19, 2018 – Today, a California Appellate Court sided with the State of California and Center for Food Safety (CFS) affirming that Monsanto's glyphosate pesticide can be listed as a probable carcinogen under Proposition 65. Monsanto's lawsuit challenged the 2015 ...

Popular weed killer Roundup, developed by Monsanto, has been on the market since the 1970s and is widely used by farmers and homeowners alike in over 160 countries. Over the past several years, however, Monsanto is now facing over 380 pending lawsuits because the product's active ingredient ...

Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine's lawsuit contends that Monsanto knowingly produced cancer-causing PCBs, which impaired the Ottawa River and ... San Diego, Seattle, Spokane, Long Beach, Calif., San Jose, Calif., and other major cities have filed lawsuits, as have the states of Washington and ...

His is one of 2,400 lawsuits filed against Monsanto by cancer victims in courts across the country, and Johnson's case is the first one scheduled for a jury trial. These victims are suing to hold Monsanto accountable, claiming that glyphosate, the listed, active ingredient in its popular herbicide Roundup, ...

In 2015, CBS news broke the announcement of a lawsuit against 31 brands of wines for high levels of inorganic arsenic. In 2016 ... More than 1,000 plaintiffs, most of them farmers, have filed lawsuits against Monsanto, a leading manufacturer of glyphosate, for Roundup exposure leading to non-Hodgkin ...

based Cow-Mil Farms, Inc., alleges in its lawsuit that reported dicamba damage has been both a predictable and profitable result of Monsanto's rollout of the Xtend product package. ... Downing has a background highlighted by blockbuster settlements from biotechnology-related lawsuits. He was the ...

“The complaint does not and cannot allege any deviation from Monsanto's design specifications or performance standards,” according to court documents. Seattle-based Friedman Rubin law firm filed the lawsuit against Monsanto and its affiliated companies for three dozen plaintiffs in January. The Monroe ...

Farmers in Missouri and other states previously said that the weed killer damaged crops in neighboring fields because dicamba drifted away from where it was sprayed due to wind. Last year, Missouri issued a temporary ban on the weed killer due to the problem. Monsanto, in the midst of a $63.5 billion ...

As a result of the havoc wreaked by dicamba, the state of Arkansas banned it this past summer, and it's now considered a restricted-use pesticide, meaning anyone wishing to use it must first be properly trained. Monsanto, in an effort to sell this product, sued the state of Arkansas in an effort to stop the ban.

Monsanto was also challenging an earlier rule that specifically targeted its brand of dicamba. BASF and DuPont also make dicamba weed killers. Piazza cited a state Supreme Court ruling last month that said the state Legislature can't waive Arkansas' immunity from lawsuits. That ruling has prompted ...

Monsanto sued the board and each individual member, calling their decision arbitrary, capricious and unlawful. Hundreds of farmers who say they need dicamba to control their weeds signed a petition calling for the board to reconsider. Six farmers also filed a lawsuit, arguing that the makeup of the board ...

Yet Bayer's compromises might not be enough if Missouri-based Monsanto's legal troubles throw a wrench in the works: The agrochemical giant currently faces 2,200 law suits in the US alone, which claim Monsanto's flagship product, Roundup, and more specifically its main ingredient glyphosate, causes ...

... on Monday halted California's plan to require Monsanto to place warning labels on its Roundup products, saying scientists haven't shown a clear connection between glyphosate and cancer. U.S. District Judge William Shubb sided with the St. Louis-based chemical giant in its First Amendment lawsuit, ...