On April 4, 2019, a tentative order issued by the Superior Court of the State of California for the County of Alameda denied Plaintiffs’ Motion for Temporary Injunction Precluding Advertisements by Monsanto Related to Safety, Testing and Studies on its Products. Read Monsanto’s opposition to Plaintiffs’ motion here. Read Bayer’s statement here.
On March 26, 2019, Judge Vince Chhabria in the federal MDL in District Court for the Northern District of California ordered the final Phase 2 jury instructions for the Hardeman v. Monsanto trial. Read the Court’s jury instructions here.
On March 19, 2019, Judge Winifred Y. Smith in the Superior Court of the State of California in and for the County of Alameda issued an order detailing the admissibility of certain testimony and evidence during the Pilliod v. Monsanto proceedings. Read the Court’s order here.
On March 18, 2019, Judge Winifred Y. Smith issued an order regarding Sargon motions and motion for summary judgment in Pilliod v. Monsanto Company, a case that is pending in the Superior Court of the State of California for the County of Alameda. The motions of Monsanto and Plaintiffs under Sargon to exclude expert testimony and the […]
On March 12, 2019, Judge Vince Chhabria in the federal MDL in District Court for the Northern District of California ordered the final Phase 1 jury instructions for the Hardeman v. Monsanto trial. Read the Court’s jury instructions here.
On February 19, 2019, Judge Winifred Y. Smith issued an order denying Monsanto’s motion to reverse bifurcate the trial in Pilliod v. Monsanto Company, a case that is pending in the Superior Court of the State of California for the County of Alameda. Previously, the MDL judge in the U.S. District Court for the Northern […]
On February 18, 2019, Judge Vince Chhabria in the federal MDL in District Court for the Northern District of California issued an order detailing the admissibility of certain testimony and evidence in the reverse bifurcated MDL proceedings. Read the Court’s order here.
On January 30, 2019, Judge Vince Chhabria in the federal MDL in District Court for the Northern District of California issued an order detailing the admissibility of certain evidence during the causation phase of the upcoming Hardeman v. Monsanto trial. Read the Court’s order here. Read Bayer’s statement here.
On January 18, 2019, Monsanto filed a motion to reverse bifurcate the trial in Pilliod v. Monsanto Company, a case that is pending in the Superior Court of the State of California for the County of Alameda before Judge Winifred Y. Smith. This motion follows an earlier ruling in the MDL in the U.S. District […]
On January 4, 2019, Monsanto filed a motion for summary judgment and specific causation Daubert motions in the Hardeman, Stevick and Gebeyehou v. Monsanto Co. cases, each of which is pending in the MDL in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California before Judge Vince Chhabria. Monsanto argues in its brief that […]
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.