Courthouse News Service
US-Mexico dispute over genetically engineered corn set for arbitration — and GE rejectionists advocate for new Gilles-Éric Séralini safety study
The U.S. Trade Representative announced August 17 the creation of a dispute settlement panel under the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA) in response ...
Combining AI and CRISPR: Gene-edited hardwood trees increase carbon sink potential of deep forests
Researchers are using the revolutionary gene-editing technology CRISPR to breed unique, pulp-abundant poplar trees that, as laid out in a study ...
Single AI-informed brain scan can detect early Alzheimer’s
British scientists announced [June 20] that they have developed a machine-learning algorithm that can determine, with 98% accuracy, whether Alzheimer’s ...
EU Court of Justice tosses Brussels lawsuit seeking to ban glyphosate weedkiller
Europe’s highest court on [Dec. 3] tossed out a challenge from Brussels to the European Commission decision that lets Europeans ...
Bayer urges court to overturn $20M glyphosate-cancer verdict, objecting to ‘unreliable expert testimony’
Roundup manufacturer Monsanto urged three Ninth Circuit judges on [Ocotber 23] to overturn a jury’s verdict finding the weed killer ...
Bees ‘scent trained’ to effectively pollinate sunflowers boost seed production up to 57%
Scientists in Argentina have trained honeybees to more effectively pollinate sunflowers — a method they believe can also be applied ...
Judge may reject FDA AquaBounty GMO salmon approval, citing risk to ‘local ecology’
At a hearing [August 25], U.S. District Judge Vincent Chhabria said he’s concerned that AquaBounty, the biotech company behind the ...
Farmworkers’ group, nine states urge federal court to ban widely used insecticide chlorpyrifos
Farmworker advocates squared off with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency before a remote Ninth Circuit panel [July 28], arguing the ...
EPA ordered to review impact of glyphosate-based herbicides on monarch butterflies—but federal court blocks ban
A Ninth Circuit panel ruled against the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency on [July 22], finding the agency must take a ...
Judge green lights class action lawsuit over Nestle’s ‘No GMO Ingredients’ product label
A federal judge .... denied a bid by food and beverage giant Nestle to toss a consumer class action claiming ...
Activist groups sue EPA to block expanded approval of alleged ‘bee-killing’ insecticide sulfoxaflor
Beekeepers asked the Ninth Circuit on [September 6] to block the federal government’s approval of the unrestricted use of the ...
‘Small victory’ for Bayer: Judge says firm can move upcoming glyphosate trials to farm states
In a win for Monsanto following more than $2 billion in cancer-trial losses in California against the company’s popular weed ...
Roundup on trial: Cancer cases plateaued while glyphosate use exploded, Bayer expert witness testifies
Alva Pilliod’s lymphoma likely had no known cause, but his singularly abnormal immune system allowed it to flourish, an oncologist ...
Following two glyphosate-cancer lawsuit defeats, here’s how Bayer may shore up its legal losses
San Francisco federal judge Vince Chhabria’s decision to split up the pivotal bellwether trials over an alleged link between Monsanto’s ...
Glyphosate trial: Text messages, emails reveal Monsanto’s ‘cozy’ relationship with EPA, plaintiffs’ lawyer argues
As the trial over the world’s most widely used herbicide and its connection to a California couple’s cancer stretches into ...
Bayer lawsuit: Plaintiff witness rejects EPA Roundup safety assessment as next glyphosate-cancer trial begins
At the start of testimony in what looks to be a long and contentious trial over whether [Bayer's herbicide] Roundup ...
Roundup trial: Plaintiff in glyphosate-cancer lawsuit asks for $18 million in damages as jury deliberations continue
Arguing that agrochemical company Monsanto has spent decades deceiving consumers about the dangers of its popular Roundup weed killer, attorneys ...
Federal judge dismisses ‘key’ claims against Monsanto in dicamba drift lawsuit
A federal judge in Missouri dismissed several claims in a class action brought by farmers claiming agrochemical giant Monsanto sold ...
Lawsuit alleging Chipotle falsely advertised non-GMO ingredients headed back to court
Reconsidering his previous dismissal, a federal judge has decided to advance a class action accusing Chipotle Mexican Grill of falsely ...
Plaintiff’s attorney ‘manipulated’ jury in Roundup-cancer trial, Bayer claims
Calling Monsanto’s efforts to hide the alleged carcinogenicity of its Roundup weed killer “reprehensible,” attorneys for a school groundskeeper dying ...
Monsanto defends its internal testing in Roundup cancer trial
A Monsanto scientist denied on [July 24th] that the company based its assertions that its Roundup weed killer doesn’t cause ...
Roundup trial: Monsanto lawyers grill expert witness for omitting key details around alleged glyphosate-cancer link
Lawyers for Monsanto attempted on [July 20th] to undermine a Chicago oncologist’s opinion that its Roundup weed killer caused a ...
Roundup trial: Monsanto lawyer, expert witness spar over glyphosate-cancer link
On the fourth day of a jury trial over whether Monsanto’s Roundup weed killer caused a Bay Area man’s deadly ...
‘Junk science’? Judge and UCLA scientist square off in glyphosate-cancer lawsuit
Returning to the witness stand, a scientist on Wednesday [April 4] defended her opinion that Monsanto’s popular weed killer Roundup ...
European Union court rules activists can challenge EU approval of GMOs
Reviving a challenge to Monsanto’s marketing of food that contains genetically modified organisms, Europe’s highest court ruled [Maarch 14] that ...
Federal judge halts California’s plan to require cancer warning label on glyphosate products
A federal judge on Monday halted California’s plan to require Monsanto to place warning labels on its Roundup products, saying scientists haven’t ...
To ban GMO crops, European countries must prove ‘serious and evident risk’ to health, environment
An EU high court adviser on Thursday [March 30, 2017] gave member states a very limited go-ahead to ban the ...
US regulators propose restrictive rules for GMO wheat field trials
After rogue genetically engineered wheat plants found in Oregon and Montana caused market fluctuations and lawsuits, the federal regulating agency proposed a change ...