Edwin Hardeman v. Monsanto Company

  1. June 25, 2021

    Top Product Liability Cases Of 2021: Midyear Report

    A U.S. Supreme Court ruling holding that Ford can be held liable for alleged defects in cars originally sold outside a plaintiff's home state and a ruling wiping out hundreds of cases alleging GlaxoSmithKline's anti-nausea drug Zofran causes birth defects are among Law360's top cases for the first six months of 2021.

  2. May 14, 2021

    9th Circ. Won't Wipe Out $25M Roundup Verdict

    The Ninth Circuit dealt a setback to Monsanto on Friday when a panel upheld a $25 million judgment in the first bellwether trial in multidistrict litigation over claims that the company's Roundup weedkiller causes cancer, saying failure-to-warn claims are not blocked by federal law.

  3. March 19, 2021

    Bayer Skips High Court Review Of $21M Roundup Verdict

    Bayer AG on Friday announced that it would not be asking the U.S. Supreme Court to review a $20.6 million verdict awarded to a former school groundskeeper who alleged that Monsanto's weedkiller Roundup caused his cancer.

  4. October 23, 2020

    9th Circ. Judge Doubts Monsanto's $25M Roundup Argument

    A Ninth Circuit judge appeared skeptical Friday of Monsanto's arguments that a $25 million judgment over Roundup's links to cancer must be overturned due to the Environmental Protection Agency's approval of the herbicide, saying a federal statute prohibits companies from using their herbicide registrations as a defense.

  5. December 20, 2019

    9th Circ. Told Attys Wrongly Sanctioned In Roundup Trial

    Two attorneys who represented a man who was awarded $25 million in a suit alleging the weedkiller Roundup caused his cancer have appealed a sanctions order issued against them during the trial, with one going so far as to call the sanctions "abusive and unfair."