Insights and Stories on Court Of Appeals

Bayer takes battle over Roundup cancer claims to U.S. Supreme Court

Aug. 16, 2021 at 2:52 pm CDT

Frankfurt | Reuters — Bayer, trying to contain billions of dollars in legal costs, filed a petition with the U.S. Supreme Court to reverse an appeals court verdict that upheld damages to a customer blaming his cancer on the German group’s glyphosate-based herbicides. Bayer last week lost a third appeal […]

U.S. appeals court rules for environmental groups in biofuel case

Jul. 16, 2021 at 5:15 pm CDT

By Stephanie Kelly

U.S. court tosses Trump-era rule expanding ethanol sales

Jul. 2, 2021 at 7:47 pm CDT

By Stephanie Kelly

Cost index up for CN, down for CP in grain revenue formula

Apr. 29, 2021 at 8:29 pm CDT

By Dave Bedard

CWB class-action suit a step closer to litigation

Dec. 4, 2020 at 1:40 pm CST

By Allan Dawson

U.S. EPA approves XtendiMax use for five years

Oct. 27, 2020 at 8:13 pm CDT

Chicago | Reuters — The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency will allow farmers for the next five years to spray crops with a Bayer herbicide whose sales were blocked by a U.S. appeals court in June, EPA administrator Andrew Wheeler said Tuesday. XtendiMax, a dicamba-based herbicide that is sprayed on soybeans […]

By Reuters

Bayer scraps plans for U.S. dicamba production

Jun. 16, 2020 at 6:37 pm CDT

Chicago | Reuters — Bayer said on Tuesday it will scrap a nearly US$1 billion project to produce dicamba in the United States, but said the move is unrelated to a federal court decision that blocked sales of dicamba-based herbicides. The German-based company is moving to save cash as it […]

By Reuters

U.S. EPA permits farmers’ use of dicamba until July 31

Jun. 8, 2020 at 9:00 pm CDT

Chicago | Reuters — The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency said on Monday that farmers can use existing supplies of a herbicide linked to crop damage, after a federal court blocked sales and use of the product last week. The EPA said farmers have until July 31 to use supplies of […]

By Tom Polansek

Appeal court overturns ruling against canola ‘streaming’ contracts

Aug. 19, 2019 at 4:26 pm CDT

A southeastern Saskatchewan farmer and canola company Input Capital are going back to court now that a ruling last year, which ripped the company’s “streaming” contracts with the farmer as “unconscionable,” has been overturned on appeal. The Saskatchewan Court of Appeal, in a ruling issued Friday, set aside a 2018 […]

By Dave Bedard

U.S. EPA wins new chance to argue against pesticide ban

Feb. 7, 2019 at 4:01 pm CST

Reuters — The Trump administration has persuaded a U.S. appeals court to reconsider its recent decision ordering the Environmental Protection Agency to ban the widely-used pesticide chlorpyrifos, which critics say can harm children and farmers. In an order on Wednesday, the Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said it will […]

By jonathan-stempel

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