Reply Brief Filed in Support of Motion for Preliminary Approval of Proposed Class Settlement
On April 7, 2021, plaintiffs’ class counsel in the Roundup™ multi-district litigation filed a reply to the Motion for Preliminary Approval.
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.
On February 7, 2020, Monsanto filed its opening appeal brief, urging the California Court of Appeal to reverse the verdict in the case. Read the opening appeal brief here. Read the motion for judicial notice here. Read Bayer’s press release here.
Bayer continues to make progress on its five-point plan to manage and mitigate the risks of Roundup™ litigation in the U.S. We settled most of the claims in this litigation and have appropriately provisioned for the remaining claims. Having won most trials, the company will continue to try cases based on decades of science and worldwide regulatory assessments that continue to support Roundup’s safety and non-carcinogenicity.
Read more about the five-point plan here.