August 31, 2015
Syngenta Corp. on Friday once again battled to toss multidistrict litigation alleging it tainted the U.S. corn supply with genetically modified seed, telling a Kansas federal court it should apply the "stranger economic loss rule" because the defendant had no relationship to the thousands of corn-producer plaintiffs.
August 11, 2015
Syngenta Corp. on Monday continued its fight to toss multidistrict litigation alleging it tainted the U.S. corn supply with genetically modified seed, telling a Kansas federal court that the plaintiffs' arguments mostly consist of diversions that avoid addressing established case law.
June 22, 2015
Syngenta urged a Kansas district judge on Friday to throw out the multidistrict litigation brought by Cargill Inc., Archer Daniels Midland Co. and thousands of farmers, distributors and supply companies accusing it of tainting the U.S. corn supply with its genetically modified seed Viptera and causing China to reject their crops.
April 10, 2015
Syngenta Corp. faces an even larger wave of litigation, as on Thursday the U.S. Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation combined suits alleging the company "tainted" the U.S. corn supply with genetically modified seed, more than tripling the size of the MDL.
March 31, 2015
Syngenta Corp. on Monday urged a Kansas federal judge to reject a bid by Cargill Inc. and Archer Daniels Midland Co. to remand to state court suits over its genetically modified corn seed, arguing the alleged "international trade incident" over China's delayed approval belongs in federal court.
December 23, 2014
The Chinese government has agreed to open its doors to a Syngenta Corp. line of genetically modified corn that has sparked a massive class action in Kansas federal court over the alleged tainting of U.S. food shipments to the Asian nation, the Swiss seed producer announced Monday.