Posted February , 2015
The United
States District Court in Kansas has named a team of four attorneys to lead
the multi-district litigation cases filed against Syngenta, according to an Ag
Professional article available here.
The entire
co-lead counsel team includes Gray, Ritter & Graham’s Don Downing;
Gray Reed & McGraw’s William Chaney; Hare, Wynn, Newell & Newton’s
Scott Powell; and Stueve Siegel Hanson’s
Patrick Stueve.
Syngenta
faces over 360 lawsuits filed in courts across the country by
corn farmers, grain handlers, exporters and others.
The
lawsuits are combined per the law firms’ following description. “The case filed
in U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Missouri (St. Louis) is Wilson
Farm Inc. et al v. Syngenta AG et al, No.4:14-cv-01908. The case filed in
U.S. District Court for the State of Kansas (Kansas City, Kan.) is Five
Star Farms et al v. Syngenta AG et al, No. 2:14-cv-02571. The Judicial
Panel on MultiDistrict Litigation has recently ordered all cases against
Syngenta to be consolidated in coordinated proceedings before the Honorable
Judge John W. Lungstrum in the U.S. District Court for the District of
Kansas (Kansas City). That venue was one of the choices of venues
supported by the firms.”
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