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Judge denies plaintiffs’ attempt at gag order on Monsanto’s Roundup safety messaging

April 9, 2019 in In The News

Northern California Record | Rich Peters

A judge presiding over the latest trial involving Monsanto’s Roundup has denied plaintiffs’ attempt at stifling the company’s messaging over the herbicide’s safety.

“Plaintiffs have not met their burden to show that Monsanto’s speech presents an actual threat of imminent prejudice to Plaintiffs’ right to a fair trial nor shown that there are no viable alternatives to a prior restraint on Monsanto’s speech,” Alameda County Superior Court Judge Winifred Smith ruled April 4.

Alva and Alberta Pilliod are the latest plaintiffs to take on Monsanto for its alleged carcinogenic glyphosate based product in a trial that got under way last week.

Their attorneys sought a motion for temporary injunction, attempting to halt any advertising by the defendant related to safety, testing and studies of Roundup.

Bayer, which acquired Monsanto last year, asserted that it clearly has a right to get its messages across to the public, just as plaintiff lawyers have “bombarded” the Bay Area with theirs.

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January 2, 2020
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Five-Point Plan to address potential future Roundup™ claims

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.

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