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Litigation Update: JPML Transfers Paraquat Cases to Illinois

Litigation Update: JPML Transfers Paraquat Cases to Illinois

On June 7, the U.S. Judicial Panel on Multi-District Litigation centralized the paraquat litigation pending against defendants Syngenta and Chevron involving the herbicide in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Illinois, citing in its order “the...

Opioid Litigation Update

Opioid Litigation Update

The first bellwether trial in the sprawling multidistrict opioid litigation began on May 3 in West Virginia federal court.  The plaintiffs in the trial, Cabell County and the city of Huntington, West Virginia, which many consider the epicenter of the opioid drug...