Insights and Stories on Lawsuit

Mar. 8, 2024 at 3:57 pm CST

Chlormequat use in oat production has prompted two class action lawsuits in California against General Mills and Quaker Oats.

By Robert Arnason

Jan. 8, 2024 at 3:03 pm CST

More than two dozen farmers are moving ahead with legal action against Purely Canada Foods after it failed to honour contracts for gluten-free oats. The dispute centres on 2022 gluten-free oat contracts. On March 1, 2023, the company sent a letter to the farmers saying it was voiding the contracts because oat processing machinery had failed the previous fall and it couldn’t accept the crop.

By Karen Briere

Jul. 7, 2022 at 6:00 pm CDT

Reuters — Bayer and BASF have won a new trial on US$60 million in punitive damages they were ordered to pay a Missouri peach farmer who said dicamba, a herbicide they produced, drifted onto his orchard and harmed his crops. The Eighth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals found that a […]

By Brendan Pierson

Feb. 2, 2022 at 9:49 pm CST

Reuters — JBS has agreed to pay US$52.5 million to settle litigation accusing meatpacking companies of conspiring to limit supply in the $63 billion-a-year U.S. beef market in order to inflate prices and boost profit. The preliminary settlement by the Brazilian company and its U.S. units with so-called direct purchasers […]

By jonathan-stempel

Dec. 9, 2021 at 5:07 pm CST

Reuters — A California jury found that Bayer’s Roundup herbicide was not the cause of a woman’s non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma, Bayer said on Thursday, delivering the chemical giant its second trial victory over claims the popular herbicide causes cancer. The jury in San Bernardino County found that Donnetta Stephens’ cancer was […]

By Tom Hals