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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