March 09, 2018
Apologizing for his "less than rudimentary" math skills, a California federal judge stepped down from the bench and scrawled a calculation on the back of a poster-board demonstrative Friday, seeking to understand a Monsanto expert's highly technical testimony supporting the company's bid to end litigation alleging its Roundup weed killer causes cancer.
March 05, 2018
Consumers in multidistrict litigation alleging Roundup gave them cancer fought back Monday against Monsanto's bid to scrap all expert testimony and end the case, calling a parade of experts to testify that scientific evidence backs up their claims the weed killer is a carcinogen during a California federal hearing.
October 10, 2017
Monsanto Co. has asked a California federal judge to toss multidistrict litigation alleging its Roundup weedkiller causes non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, saying expert testimony proposed by the consumers fails to provide admissible evidence that Roundup's active ingredient causes cancer.
August 24, 2017
A California federal judge ripped into all sides in a contentious hearing Thursday over Monsanto's allegations that an opposing attorney improperly leaked confidential documents in a multidistrict litigation alleging its Roundup weedkiller causes cancer, at one point threatening to call security to remove a lawyer.
August 10, 2017
A California federal judge Wednesday ordered one of the lead attorneys representing consumers who have accused Monsanto Co. of peddling cancer-causing weedkillers to demonstrate to the court why he and his firm should not be taken off the case after allegedly posting sealed documents online.
July 05, 2017
Monsanto Co. got a scolding in a Wednesday order removing a suit over an allegedly cancerous herbicide to California state court by U.S. District Judge Vince Chhabria, who called the company's theory "flimsy" and warned of fees should Monsanto repeat it.
June 08, 2017
The Environmental Protection Agency's inspector general is looking into allegations that an EPA employee colluded with Monsanto to conduct a biased review of the pesticide glyphosate, the agency has said.
May 08, 2017
Consumers claiming Monsanto's weedkiller Roundup causes cancer shouldn't be allowed to force the company to turn over more than 1,000 slides of mouse kidney tissue from the 1980s, the company told a California federal court Friday, calling the "last-minute" request a "transparent attempt" to disrupt the case schedule.
March 15, 2017
European regulators said Wednesday that the active ingredient in Monsanto's weedkiller Roundup doesn't cause cancer, a day after a California judge in consolidated litigation over the substance made public documents that indicated a U.S. environmental official had offered to "kill" a federal agency's study of the chemical's safety.