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The L.A. City Council announced a $35-million settlement with agriculture giant Monsanto and two ... Los Angeles Harbor and Echo Park Lake due to the spread of toxic chemicals is at the ...
SEATTLE (AP) — Ending an eight-year legal battle, chemical giant Monsanto has agreed to a $160-million settlement with Seattle for its part in polluting a river that runs through the heart of ...
A Washington state appeals court on Wednesday overturned a $185 million verdict against Bayer's Monsanto unit over chemical contamination at a Seattle-area school, marking the second big legal win ...
In 2012, a French court found Monsanto guilty of chemical poisoning of a farmer who had used the herbicide Lasso, a trade name for alachlor. This is the first such case to be heard in France and is considered "a judgment that could lend weight to other health claims against pesticides." [ 85 ]
The Monsanto Company (/ mɒnˈsæntoʊ /) was an American agrochemical and agricultural biotechnology corporation founded in 1901 and headquartered in Creve Coeur, Missouri. Monsanto's best-known product is Roundup, a glyphosate -based herbicide, developed in the 1970s. Later, the company became a major producer of genetically engineered crops.
Monsanto Canada Inc v Schmeiser [2004] 1 S.C.R. 902, 2004 SCC 34 is a leading Supreme Court of Canada case on patent rights for biotechnology, between a Canadian canola farmer, Percy Schmeiser, and the agricultural biotechnology company Monsanto. The court heard the question of whether Schmeiser's intentionally growing genetically modified ...
Paul François. The Monsanto product with which François was poisoned is known commercially as Lasso. Paul François is a French agricultor and author, [1] who has been decorated with the Legion of Honour. [2] He is notable chiefly because he demonstrated to a court of law that he was poisoned by a Monsanto product.
Bayer bought the holding interest of Monsanto, the owner of Roundup ,on June 7, 2018. By May 2022, Monsanto settled over 100,000 Roundup lawsuits, paying out $11 billion in damages. There are ...