May 29, 2018
Corn farmers suing law firms for allegedly boxing them out of a $1.5 billion settlement with Syngenta over the premature commercialization of new corn strains in order to keep their contingency fees want class certification, they told a Minnesota federal court Tuesday.
April 25, 2018
A group of North Dakota farmers accused a Texas law firm and co-counsel of tricking 60,000 farmers into signing a 40 percent contingency fee agreement in underlying multidistrict litigation over Syngenta AG's genetically modified corn seed before secretly excluding them from other suits, in a putative class action filed in Minnesota federal court Tuesday.