May 13, 2019 – Oakland, California - - An Alameda jury in the case of Pilliod et al. v. Monsanto Company (Case No. RG17862702, JCCP No. 4953) returned a verdict today of $2.055 billion in favor of a husband and wife with non-Hodgkin lymphoma, ordering Monsanto to pay $55 million in compensatory damages and $2 billion in punitive [...]
May, 2019 – Los Angeles, California - - The law firm of Baum, Hedlund, Aristei & Goldman will pursue legal action on behalf of grieving Lion Air Flight 610 families who were pressured into signing unlawful release and discharge forms designed to strip away their legal rights. On Oct. 29, 2018, a Boeing [...]
April 24, 2019 - Los Angeles, California - - The law firm of Baum, Hedlund, Aristei & Goldman made public today hundreds of pages of newly de-classified internal Monsanto documents, including company email exchanges, reports, studies and other memoranda. Searchable Chart of New Monsanto Papers - Release #2 Searchable Master [...]
The law firm of Baum, Hedlund, Aristei & Goldman filed a wrongful death lawsuit today on behalf of a California man who lost his son in a Boise, Idaho truck accident last June. Attorneys Ronald L. M. Goldman and Clay Robbins III filed the lawsuit today in U.S. District Court of the Fourth District [...]
Apr. 8, 2019 - Las Vegas, Nevada – The law firm of Baum, Hedlund, Aristei & Goldman has filed a wrongful death lawsuit on behalf of the parents of Instagram model, Mariah Sunshine Coogan, against the owners of a private plane that crashed on April 9, 2018. Six people were [...]
Highlighting the importance of maintaining infrastructure in the United States, a report from the American Road and Transportation Builders Association identified more than 47,000 bridges across the United States that are deemed structurally deficient. Although "structurally deficient" does not necessarily mean the bridges are at the brink of collapse, it [...]
March 20, 2019 – Los Angeles, California - - The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors ordered all county departments to cease using glyphosate-based herbicides, including Monsanto’s Roundup weed killer. The moratorium issued on Tuesday puts a stop to glyphosate spraying on county property until the health and environmental effects are [...]
The landmark jury verdict in the case of Dewayne “Lee” Johnson v. Monsanto Company (now Bayer) was one of the largest and most significant verdicts in California last year, according to the Daily Journal. In its ‘Top Verdicts’ issue, the Daily Journal highlighted the work of Roundup cancer attorneys from Baum, Hedlund, Aristei [...]
March 8, 2019 – Oakland, California - -The trial of Pilliod v. Monsanto Company (now Bayer) begins with jury selection on Monday, March 25, 2019, in Superior Court of California for the County of Alameda before Judge Winifred Smith. Attorneys for the plaintiffs anticipate the trial will last about a month.Pilliod [...]
March 7, 2019 – San Francisco, California - - The federal judge overseeing the federal Monsanto Roundup cancer multidistrict litigation (MDL) denied Monsanto’s motion for summary judgment on non-causation grounds, finding that the plaintiffs’ claims in three bellwether cases are backed by sufficient evidence and are not preempted. Hundreds of Roundup [...]
