plunging this morning in the first minutes of trading here in frankfurt the share price lost more than ten percent because of course a huge amount of damages for by air is now a possibility we have to take into consideration that this is a so-called bellwether case which means we're not only talking about one man getting cancer and suing buyer the judge in this courtroom in san francisco has more than seven hundred cases more than seven hundred files on his table where other gardeners other farmers are suing buyer and of course there are eleven thousand more cases all over the united states pending against buyer all those cases can proceed now more easily after yesterday's decision more than eleven thousand cases now buyer acquired monsanto last summer in a blockbuster deal today really realize the legal exposure that they were facing in this. no they didn't. who is the c.e.o.