IN RE: DICAMBA HERBICIDES LITIGATION

  1. March 11, 2020

    BASF Wants No More Delays On Dicamba Class Cert. Battle

    BASF Corp. complained Tuesday about repeated delays on the key question of class certification in major litigation over the pesticide dicamba, urging the federal court that oversaw a $265 million first trial in the litigation not to budge on next week's briefing deadline — despite requests from plaintiffs and fellow dicamba maker Monsanto.

  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 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.

  5. 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.

  6. April 22, 2019

    Farmer Fights To Walk From Dicamba MDL On His Terms

    An Arkansas farmer has already given Monsanto and BASF all the evidence they need from him, so he shouldn't have to stay against his will in multidistrict litigation over an allegedly crop-damaging herbicide, he told a Missouri federal court Friday.

  7. April 15, 2019

    Farmer Can't Exit Dicamba MDL, Monsanto And BASF Say

    A farmer should not be allowed to drop out of multidistrict litigation against Monsanto and BASF over the crop-damaging herbicide dicamba, the companies have told a Missouri federal court, arguing he is simply trying to evade his discovery and deposition obligations.

  8. March 14, 2019

    Monsanto Uproots Farmers' Dicamba MDL Antitrust Claims

    A Missouri federal judge ruled that farmers cannot bring antitrust claims against Monsanto Co. as part of their multidistrict litigation proposed class action against the company and BASF Corp. alleging the companies purposely distributed dicamba, a crop-damaging herbicide, to force growers into buying herbicide-resistant seeds.

  9. November 06, 2018

    Monsanto, BASF Look To Sink Farmers' Dicamba MDL

    Monsanto Co. and BASF Corp. asked a Missouri federal judge Monday to toss a proposed class action by farmers alleging the companies purposely distributed a crop-damaging herbicide and withheld information about its harmful effects in order to profit economically.

  10. October 16, 2018

    Farmers Say Don't Kill Monsanto Antitrust Claims In MDL

    Farmers' allegations that Monsanto Corp. engaged in anti-competitive practices by pushing soybeans with a tolerance to a specific herbicide should not be dismissed, they argue, because their suit could show that the company knew farmers would be compelled to buy the product.