March 11, 2020
BASF Corp. complained Tuesday about repeated delays on the key question of class certification in major litigation over the pesticide dicamba, urging the federal court that oversaw a $265 million first trial in the litigation not to budge on next week's briefing deadline — despite requests from plaintiffs and fellow dicamba maker Monsanto.
February 28, 2020
A Missouri federal judge on Friday shot down a bid by BASF Corp. to get out of a $250 million punitive damages award handed down in the first trial over alleged harm caused by the weedkiller dicamba, saying BASF and Monsanto Corp. would have to share the penalty.
February 26, 2020
BASF Corp. on Tuesday told a Missouri federal court that only Monsanto Corp. should pay for a $250 million punitive damages award handed down in the first trial over alleged harm caused by the weedkiller dicamba, saying that the court had previously dismissed a claim that both were liable.
February 16, 2020
A federal jury awarded $15 million in compensatory damages Friday and $250 million in punitive damages Saturday in the first trial over claims that dicamba makers Bayer unit Monsanto and BASF were liable for the decimation of a large Missouri peach farm due to a neighboring cotton farm's use of the weedkiller.
February 10, 2020
Monsanto asked a Missouri federal court on Friday to bar punitive damages and to enter a win for the company in an ongoing trial over a peach farm's claims that pesticides drifting from nearby fields of crops resistant to the weedkiller dicamba decimated his land.
April 22, 2019
An Arkansas farmer has already given Monsanto and BASF all the evidence they need from him, so he shouldn't have to stay against his will in multidistrict litigation over an allegedly crop-damaging herbicide, he told a Missouri federal court Friday.
April 15, 2019
A farmer should not be allowed to drop out of multidistrict litigation against Monsanto and BASF over the crop-damaging herbicide dicamba, the companies have told a Missouri federal court, arguing he is simply trying to evade his discovery and deposition obligations.
March 14, 2019
A Missouri federal judge ruled that farmers cannot bring antitrust claims against Monsanto Co. as part of their multidistrict litigation proposed class action against the company and BASF Corp. alleging the companies purposely distributed dicamba, a crop-damaging herbicide, to force growers into buying herbicide-resistant seeds.
November 06, 2018
Monsanto Co. and BASF Corp. asked a Missouri federal judge Monday to toss a proposed class action by farmers alleging the companies purposely distributed a crop-damaging herbicide and withheld information about its harmful effects in order to profit economically.
October 16, 2018
Farmers' allegations that Monsanto Corp. engaged in anti-competitive practices by pushing soybeans with a tolerance to a specific herbicide should not be dismissed, they argue, because their suit could show that the company knew farmers would be compelled to buy the product.