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Monsanto defeats class action alleging weed killer Roundup causes cancer
Class Actions 2024-07-25 4:26 pm By Cindy Cameronne

A judge has dismissed a class action alleging Monsanto’s Roundup weed killer is carcinogenic but did not go so far as to say it definitively does not cause cancer, while also dressing down the lawyers for both sides for causing delays in the case.

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Class action against Noumi lays claim to $5M penalty in ASIC case
Securities 2024-07-18 2:04 pm By Sam Matthews

Noumi has agreed to pay a $5 million penalty for violating its continuous disclosure obligations in a case brought by the corporate regulator, but the applicant in a shareholder class action against the food company says the sum should be reserved to compensate group members.Ā 

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ā€˜Alarmingā€™: ASIC suspects ex-Keystone boss may have used investor funds to buy home
Financial Services 2024-06-25 11:29 pm By Cindy Cameronne

A judge has expressed concern about the Australian Securities and Investments Commission’s suspicion that a former director of Keystone Asset Management may have used investor funds to purchase a house in his wifeā€™s name, calling it “alarming”.

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As Roundup trial wraps up, Monsanto says class action has ‘finger on scales’
Trials 2024-01-30 5:48 pm By Sam Matthews

Defending allegations that its popular weed killer Roundup is carcinogenic, agrochemical giant Monsanto has accused the class action of having its ā€œfinger on the scalesā€ when presenting scientific evidence to the court.

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‘No safe level of exposure’ to Roundup, class action tells court
Class Actions 2024-01-29 4:46 pm By Sam Matthews

A class action against agrochemical giant Monsanto has told the court that there is ā€œno safe level of exposureā€ to carcinogens allegedly present in the company’s popular weed killer Roundup.Ā 

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Monsanto loses bid to throw out ‘cut and paste’ expert evidence in Roundup class action
Class Actions 2023-10-24 11:18 pm By Cat Fredenburgh

Monsanto can’t throw out the evidence of an expert for the plaintiff in a class action over its Roundup product who has testified that the company engaged in criminal conduct in trying to bury scientific reports on the popular weed killer’s alleged cancer-causing properties.

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New crop of Victorian silks appointed by top judge
Business of Law 2023-10-18 6:22 pm By Sam Matthews

Several class action counsel and an IP expert are among twenty-five new silks appointed in Victoria.

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Monsanto to attack decades of science in Roundup class action, court told
Trials 2023-09-04 10:25 pm By Sam Matthews

On the first day of a seven-week trial, the applicant in a class action against Monsanto has taken aim at the agrochemical giantā€™s ā€œsame old approachā€ to undermining decades of evidence it says demonstrates the cancer-causing properties of popular weed killer Roundup.

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Bayer’s Monsanto takes Roundup class action to trial
Trials 2023-09-01 11:38 pm By Christine Caulfield

Agrochemical giant Monsanto is digging in for a fight in a class action over its alleged carcinogenic weed killer, Roundup, having refused to budge in mediation despite a $16 billion settlement in the US.

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Lawyers for TPG-backed Anew Climate taken to task for writ failure
Energy & Natural Resources 2023-06-29 9:53 pm By Sam Matthews

A judge has rejected TPG-owned Anew Climateā€™s bid for default judgment against an Australian company that allegedly impersonated a US carbon offset developer in order to unlawfully receive payments under a $1 billion deal, saying ā€œitā€™s not hardā€ to make the application under the correct rule.

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