A Missouri couple recently filed a new paraquat lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Illinois. One of them suffers from Parkinson’s disease (PD), which he blames on his exposure to paraquat, a popular herbicide. Plaintiff Used Paraquat on Farms for…
Back in June 2021, the U.S. Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation consolidated all federally filed paraquat lawsuits into one court in the Southern District of Illinois for pre-trial proceedings. Since then, both sides have been gathering evidence and working on preparing a few cases for…
A Tennessee man who suffers from Parkinson’s disease recently filed a new paraquat lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Illinois. He seeks to hold manufacturers Syngenta and Chevron liable for his injuries. Plaintiff Blames Manufacturers for Failing to Warn About…
An Arizona man recently filed a new paraquat lawsuit against the manufacturers of the herbicide, including Syngenta AG and Chevron USA, Inc. He claims that after applying paraquat to crops for years, he developed Parkinson’s disease. He seeks compensatory and punitive damages. The case is…
On May 31, 2022, a North Carolina Marine Corps veteran filed a new lawsuit against several manufacturers of firefighting foams, including 3M Company, Chemguard, and Dupont. He claims that during his service at Camp Lejeune, a military base in North Carolina, he was exposed to toxic…
According to a recent CNN report, a former employee at infant formula manufacturer Abbott Nutrition filed a whistleblower complaint about the company’s plant in Sturgis, Michigan, back in February 2021. This was a year before Abbott shut down its facility to address contamination issues. The…
About a year ago, the U.S. Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation (JPML) ordered that all federally filed paraquat lawsuits be consolidated in the Southern District of Illinois. Since then, the parties have been working toward selecting a small number of cases to be prepared for…
A DUI suspect is blamed for a double fatal accident near the Tachi Palace Casino Resort in Lemoore, California. The California Highway Patrol says the accident occurred late Friday night near the intersection of Jersey Avenue and 17th Avenue on July 1, 2022. KGPE-TV reports…
It was recently revealed that the FBI has opened an investigation into sex abuse in the Roman Catholic Church in New Orleans going back decades, on the grounds that the accused men could have violated a federal anti-sex trafficking law by crossing state lines. This…
Following a months-long shortage of infant formula caused in part by the shut-down of the Abbott Laboratories facility in Sturgis, Michigan, Abbott has now resumed operations at that facility. The hope is that this move will soon result in the shelves being restocked with the…
