a company faces hundreds maybe even thousands of cases against it the judge will often pick one case and say this is the one that's what we're going to use retest the merits were to see how that goes and then we'll produce the others afterwards what was interesting about this case is first of all it's the second case to go to trial i think you mentioned there was another case in august of last year that was in state court in california the first federal trial the federal judge said this will be a bellwether case going forward what was interesting is it was actually separate into two phases one was the evidentiary phase against roundup itself and the other is months on toes of knowledge. of whether round up the chemical in a glass to say it was problematic and it was supposed to actually be an easier case you know months on to win and they didn't. choose among acquired months after just over a year ago now there must have been a sense back then of the potential liabilities of round up which is one of monsanto's best sellers right there more than eleven thousand cases in state and federal court against. now by air related to round up on claims of.