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Filings on Motions to Intervene in Cases Brought Against the Environmental Protection Agency on Glyphosate Registration

April 20, 2020 in Filings and Rulings

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 Registration Review Decision on glyphosate. With these motions the parties jointly requested to intervene in support of the EPA in these cases before the U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals.

Read the motion filed in Rural Coalition et al. v. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency et al. here.

Read the motion in the parallel case brought by the Natural Resources Defense Council 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.