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Week 3 Concludes In Glyphosate Trial
Jurors in the Alva and Alberta Pilliod trial heard from numerous witness last week including members of Monsanto’s product safety team and the Pilliods themselves, a married couple who allege they both developed non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma from their long-term use of...
Week 2 Concludes In Latest Glyphosate Trial
Jurors in the Alva and Alberta Pilliod trial spent most of last week hearing from multiple expert witnesses hired by plaintiffs regarding research they say shows that the glyphosate-based herbicide, Roundup, causes non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma. The Pilliods, married for...
Michaela Lancer To Speak For MDLA On Glyphosate
On Thursday, April 18, 2019, from 12:30pm until 1:30pm, Michaela Lancer and John Gardella will speak at a lunch event sponsored by the Massachusetts Defense Lawyers Association's (MDLA) Toxic Torts Committee on the topic of glyphosate. The presentation is entitled...
Prop 65 Proposals Take Aim At Cannabis Industry
California’s Proposition 65 is, among other things, a consumer product labeling law. Though there are exceptions to the rule, it is generally a safe bet that if a product contains one or more of approximately 900 chemicals known to the State of California to cause...
Third Glyphosate Trial Begins In California
One day after a California jury in federal court awarded plaintiff Edwin Hardeman nearly $81 million dollars for his development of non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma from use of glyphosate-containing weed killer, the Alva and Alberta Pilliod trial got underway in state court in...
Michaela Lancer and John Gardella’s Glyphosate Article In Law360
On March 28, 2019, CMBG3's Michaela Lancer and John Gardella's co-authored article, Expectations For Glyphosate Litigation After Monsanto Verdict, was published by Law360, a legal news service that provides expert analysis and updates on currently trending legal...
Glyphosate Trial Ends In $80 Million Verdict – So What’s Next?
The first glyphosate federal bellwether trial ended yesterday with a California jury awarding plaintiff Edwin Hardeman nearly $81 million dollars. A unanimous jury found Monsanto liable for failing to warn that its glyphosate-containing Roundup weed killer could cause...
Glyphosate Can Cause Cancer, Jury Says
After nearly a week of deliberations, the jury reached a verdict yesterday in the Hardeman case finding that glyphosate-containing Roundup weed killer was a substantial factor in causing Edwin Hardeman’s non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma. That was the single question that the...
Luis Barba and Anthony DaFonseca – Construction Litigation Cover Story
In the March 2019 issue of Claims magazine, CMBG3 Partner Luis Barba and CMBG3 Associate Attorney Anthony DaFonseca co-authored an article regarding construction litigation that was published as the cover story in the prestigious industry publication. A copy of the...
Glyphosate: Science On Trial – Case Goes To the Jury
The jury has started their deliberations in phase one of the Hardeman trial after testimony from Monsanto’s experts on Monday and hearing closing arguments from both sides yesterday. This is the first of three bellwether trials in federal court alleging that...
Proposition 65 Affects CA Property Owners and Landlords, Too!
Proposition 65 warning signs are nearing ubiquity on assorted products sold in California and at various premises in the state. Among the requirements of Prop. 65, certain landlords must provide warnings to their tenants. Over the past year, the agency responsible...
Plaintiffs Rest Case In CA Glyphosate Trial
Plaintiffs rested their case on Friday at the end of week two in the on-going Hardeman trial, the first of three bellwether trials in California federal court alleging that Monsanto’s glyphosate-containing Roundup weed killer causes cancer. What is Glyphosate?...