From Madison/St. Clair Record: The defendant in a proposed federal class action over water contamination allegedly caused by the weed killer atrazine is asking a federal judge to compel each plaintiff currently listed in the suit to answer discovery questions including those related to damages and water testing results. Defendant Syngenta Crop Protection LLC filed […]
From Madison/St. Clair Record: Two Kansas cities have been dropped from a proposed multi-state class action against Syngenta Crop Protection LLC and its Swiss parent company Syngenta AG over claims that a weed killer made by the companies contaminates water supplies. The cities of Plains and Dodge City, Kan. are the latest named plaintiffs to […]
From Alex Avery via CGFI: In April, the National Resources Defense Council issued an update in its all-out campaign to demonize and ban the herbicide atrazine. The scope of its attack shows that the NRDC has learned a thing or two from the 1980s, when it ginned up a successful campaign to demonize the apple […]
From Madison/St. Clair Record: While the Madison County asbestos meter continues to spin like some kind of hyper-active Las Vegas slot machine, there is a chance another one of the trial lawyer “get richer quicker” schemes from the “A” file may be handed a “get out of our court” card, which is similar to a […]
