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‘Texas Two-Step’ — Bayer weighs new Roundup suit strategy as costs of cancer litigation mount

Bayer AG is weighing whether to use a controversial legal maneuver known as the Texas Two-Step bankruptcy to try to resolve ...
Slaughterless meat on cusp of reality? Cell-based steak, chicken and fish are all on the near horizon

Slaughterless meat on cusp of reality? Cell-based steak, chicken and fish are all on the near horizon

Maeve Sheehey | Bloomberg Law |
Companies creating lab-grown steak, chicken, and fish see a recent White House announcement as a signal that meat grown without ...
Viewpoint: Lawyers spend hundreds of millions of dollars on pushing ‘inaccurate and baseless claims’ about common products like Roundup and talcum powder

Viewpoint: Lawyers spend hundreds of millions of dollars on pushing ‘inaccurate and baseless claims’ about common products like Roundup and talcum powder

Tiger Joyce | Bloomberg Law |
Plaintiffs’ lawyers are relying more and more on traditional and social media to bolster litigation, often pushing inaccurate and baseless ...
Dicamba drift: Court upholds judgement against Bayer but orders new trial to assess damages

Dicamba drift: Court upholds judgement against Bayer but orders new trial to assess damages

Maya Earls | Bloomberg Law |
Monsanto Co. and BASF Corp. are liable for the herbicide dicamba’s damage to a farmer’s peach orchards, the Eighth Circuit ...