In re Roundup Products Liability Litigation

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Case overview

Case Number:

3:16-md-02741

Court:

California Northern

Nature of Suit:

Personal Inj. Prod. Liability

Multi Party Litigation:

Multi-district Litigation

Judge:

Vince Chhabria

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  1. October 10, 2017

    Monsanto Slams Scientific Experts In Roundup Cancer MDL

    Monsanto Co. has asked a California federal judge to toss multidistrict litigation alleging its Roundup weedkiller causes non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, saying expert testimony proposed by the consumers fails to provide admissible evidence that Roundup's active ingredient causes cancer.

  2. August 24, 2017

    Calif. Judge Threatens To Call Security In Monsanto Hearing

    A California federal judge ripped into all sides in a contentious hearing Thursday over Monsanto's allegations that an opposing attorney improperly leaked confidential documents in a multidistrict litigation alleging its Roundup weedkiller causes cancer, at one point threatening to call security to remove a lawyer.

  3. August 10, 2017

    Firm In Hot Water Over Releasing Monsanto Weedkiller Docs

    A California federal judge Wednesday ordered one of the lead attorneys representing consumers who have accused Monsanto Co. of peddling cancer-causing weedkillers to demonstrate to the court why he and his firm should not be taken off the case after allegedly posting sealed documents online.

  4. July 05, 2017

    Judge Warns Monsanto On 'Flimsy' Fed. Jurisdiction Theories

    Monsanto Co. got a scolding in a Wednesday order removing a suit over an allegedly cancerous herbicide to California state court by U.S. District Judge Vince Chhabria, who called the company's theory "flimsy" and warned of fees should Monsanto repeat it.

  5. June 08, 2017

    EPA Probing Alleged Collusion Between Ex-Staffer, Monsanto

    The Environmental Protection Agency's inspector general is looking into allegations that an EPA employee colluded with Monsanto to conduct a biased review of the pesticide glyphosate, the agency has said.

  6. May 08, 2017

    Monsanto Blasts 'Last-Minute' Discovery In Weedkiller MDL

    Consumers claiming Monsanto's weedkiller Roundup causes cancer shouldn't be allowed to force the company to turn over more than 1,000 slides of mouse kidney tissue from the 1980s, the company told a California federal court Friday, calling the "last-minute" request a "transparent attempt" to disrupt the case schedule.

  7. March 15, 2017

    EU Agency Says Monsanto Weedkiller Doesn't Cause Cancer

    European regulators said Wednesday that the active ingredient in Monsanto's weedkiller Roundup doesn't cause cancer, a day after a California judge in consolidated litigation over the substance made public documents that indicated a U.S. environmental official had offered to "kill" a federal agency's study of the chemical's safety.