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Civil Litigation

Mar. 29, 2019

Plaintiffs’ attorney urges state jury to join ‘historic fight’ in new Monsanto case

An attorney representing a couple arguing Monsanto’s massively popular weedkillers cause cancer urged the jury Thursday to join the “historic fight” in a new trial, this time in state court, against the Bayer-AG owned company as findings of legal liability start to mount.

OAKLAND -- An attorney representing a couple arguing Monsanto's massively popular weedkillers cause cancer urged a jury Thursday to join a "historic fight", this time in state court, against the Bayer-AG owned company.

A day after a San Francisco federal jury hit Monsanto for over $80 million for recklessly advertising and selling Roundup, R. Brent Wisner laid out what he said was a concerted effort by company executives to preserve ...

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