Bader Farms, Inc. et al v. Monsanto Company

  1. March 16, 2020

    Class Cert. Extended In Monsanto, BASF Dicamba MDL

    A Missouri federal court has ordered a one-month extension for class certification briefing in the multidistrict litigation over Monsanto and BASF's dicamba weed killers, which saw a $265 million verdict in its first trial in February.

  2. February 28, 2020

    BASF Can't Dodge $250M Punitive Award In Dicamba Case

    A Missouri federal judge on Friday shot down a bid by BASF Corp. to get out of a $250 million punitive damages award handed down in the first trial over alleged harm caused by the weedkiller dicamba, saying BASF and Monsanto Corp. would have to share the penalty.

  3. February 26, 2020

    BASF Wants Out Of $250M Dicamba Punitive Award

    BASF Corp. on Tuesday told a Missouri federal court that only Monsanto Corp. should pay for a $250 million punitive damages award handed down in the first trial over alleged harm caused by the weedkiller dicamba, saying that the court had previously dismissed a claim that both were liable.

  4. February 20, 2020

    BASF Gets Chance To Fight $250M Dicamba Punitive Award

    A Missouri federal judge said Thursday he's willing to consider BASF Corp.'s argument that only Monsanto Co. should be on the hook for a $250 million punitive damages award handed down in the first trial over alleged harm caused by the weedkiller dicamba.

  5. February 16, 2020

    Bayer, BASF Hit With $265M Verdict In First Dicamba Trial

    A federal jury awarded $15 million in compensatory damages Friday and $250 million in punitive damages Saturday in the first trial over claims that dicamba makers Bayer unit Monsanto and BASF were liable for the decimation of a large Missouri peach farm due to a neighboring cotton farm's use of the weedkiller.

  6. February 10, 2020

    Monsanto Looks To Sink Farmer's Trial Over Dicamba Drift

    Monsanto asked a Missouri federal court on Friday to bar punitive damages and to enter a win for the company in an ongoing trial over a peach farm's claims that pesticides drifting from nearby fields of crops resistant to the weedkiller dicamba decimated his land.