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Civil Litigation

Dec. 2, 2019

Monsanto aims to prohibit ‘unreliable’ plaintiffs’ experts in next Roundup test trial

Monsanto has maintained through three years of litigation that plaintiffs’ attorneys are offering unreliable experts to testify on unfounded accusations Roundup exposure causes non-Hodgkin lymphoma.

Monsanto Co. is trying to change the landscape of evidence and testimony ahead of the next test trial over its Roundup weedkiller that plaintiffs allege causes cancer.

Expert witnesses for plaintiffs' attorneys representing more than 2,000 cancer-stricken people should be prohibited from testifying on theories that Roundup generally causes non-Hodgkin lymphoma and that the named plaintiff's cancer was specifically caused by exposure...

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