On May 18, 2021, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) filed a brief in Natural Resources Defense Council et al. v. United States Environmental Protection Agency in the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals reaffirming its interim decision on glyphosate.
On April 7, 2021, plaintiffs’ class counsel in the Roundup™ multi-district litigation filed a reply to the Motion for Preliminary Approval.
On September 28, 2020, Monsanto filed a reply to the Plaintiff’s answer to the company’s Petition for Review with the California Supreme Court.
Multiple amicus letters have been filed in support of Monsanto’s petition for review of the Johnson case before the California Supreme Court.
Monsanto filed a petition with the highest court in California seeking its review of the decision in Dewayne Johnson v. Monsanto Company, the first case in the Roundup™ litigation to go to trial. Monsanto asserts in the petition that the Court of Appeal’s recent decision warrants review because it conflicts with the law and longstanding legal principles with regard to federal preemption, design defect, failure to warn and punitive damages.
On July 1, 2020, Monsanto filed a combined appellant’s reply brief and cross respondent’s brief in the Pilliod case in the Court of Appeal of the State of California. Read the brief here.
On June 1, 2020, Monsanto filed its third step brief in the Hardeman glyphosate case in the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, urging the Court to reverse the verdict in the case. Read the third step brief here. Read the initial opening appeal brief here.
On April 20, 2020, ten associations, including Monsanto, which represent a substantial segment of U.S. agriculture and other professions that utilize and rely on glyphosate, filed motions in Rural Coalition et al. v. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency et al. and a parallel case brought by the Natural Resources Defense Council, cases which challenge EPA’s Interim […]
On February 12, 2020, a nationwide coalition of agricultural producers and business entities that collectively represent a substantial segment of U.S. agriculture filed in the Eastern District of California in support of their motion for summary judgment in the case against the California Attorney General regarding the state’s cancer warning requirement for products containing glyphosate […]
On February 11, 2020, Monsanto filed a supplemental appeal brief in the Johnson case in the Court of Appeal of the State of California (First Appellate District, Division One). Read the brief here.
Bayer today provided an update on its five-point plan to address future Roundup™ litigation risk after its May 27th decision to withdraw from the national class process. The company is now in more control of important aspects of the risk mitigation process and has sketched out two basic scenarios going forward to provide a path to closure of this litigation. The first scenario is based on obtaining a favorable decision by the United States Supreme Court on a cross-cutting issue like federal preemption which would effectively and largely end the U.S. Roundup™ litigation. The second scenario assumes that the Supreme Court either declines to hear the Hardeman case or issues a ruling in favor of plaintiff – in that case the company would activate its own claims administration program.
Read about the five-point plan here.