Multi District News Today

EAST ST. LOUIS - Lawyers who blame weed killer paraquat for causing Parkinson’s disease tried to use the power of the U.S. district court to investigate neurotoxicologist Douglas Weed of Salt Lake City for writing an article against their theory.

EAST ST. LOUIS – After discovering dead plaintiffs on the docket of national litigation over claims that weed killer paraquat causes Parkinson’s disease, defendants Syngenta and Chevron claim they’ve discovered 611 empty claims.

EAST ST. LOUIS – Deceased plaintiffs clutter the docket of national litigation on claims that weed killer paraquat causes Parkinson’s disease, according to defendants Syngenta and Chevron.

On Monday, the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed $40 million and $10 million jury verdicts against E. I. du Pont de Nemours & Co. (DuPont) for

Tillery BELLEVILLE – Stephen Tillery, ready for trial on a claim that weed killer paraquat caused four plaintiffs to suffer Parkinson’s disease, won the biggest judgment ever in an American trial and lost it at the Illinois Supreme Court.  In 2003, after a bench trial, late Madison County judge Nicholas Byron awarded more than $10 billion to a class of cigarette smokers Tillery represented.  The few American cases with higher judgments, such as state tobacco li...

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