Monsanto Co. told a Missouri federal judge on Monday that it expects to finalize settlement documents next week with Bader Farms, a large Missouri peach farm, in a suit alleging Monsanto's sale of herbicide-resistant seeds led neighboring farmers to spray an herbicide that damaged its crops.
A federal appellate court on Thursday upheld a $15 million damage award to a Missouri peach farmer whose crops were damaged by pesticides that drifted off
The Eighth Circuit on Thursday said a lower court should have assessed $60 million in punitive damages between Monsanto Co. and BASF Corp. individually instead of lumping them together, in a suit alleging their sale of herbicide-resistant seeds led farmers to spray a herbicide that then damaged a neighboring farm's crop.
There have been some noteworthy recent decisions in trade secrets law. This blog post summarizes some of the significant decisions grouped by the hot topics below.