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 [...]
Feb. 22, 2019 – Hilo, Hawaii - - The law firm of Baum, Hedlund, Aristei & Goldman filed a personal injury lawsuit on behalf of six people who suffered injuries after masses of molten lava rained down on them and others aboard a lava tour boat last July. Boat accident attorney Clay [...]
February 21, 2019, San Francisco, California - - The trial of Edwin Hardeman v. Monsanto Company (now Bayer) will begin with opening arguments on Monday, February 25, 2019 in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California in San Francisco before Judge Vince Chhabria. Jury selection occurred on February [...]
Feb. 8, 2019 – Ottawa, Canada - - After listening to a presentation and meeting with Baum, Hedlund, Aristei & Goldman attorneys during their recent trip to Canada, Member of Parliament Carol Hughes is calling for an independent review of glyphosate, the active ingredient in Monsanto’s Roundup weed killer. Three-term MP Hughes, who represents [...]
Feb. 8, 2019 – Toronto, Ontario - - Baum, Hedlund, Aristei & Goldman attorneys Michael Baum and R. Brent Wisner traveled to Canada last week to participate in a campaign to push the Canadian government to undertake an independent review of the agrichemical, glyphosate, a key ingredient in Monsanto’s Roundup weed killer. Friends of the [...]
Feb. 7, 2019 – Seattle, Washington - - A King County jury found Ride the Ducks and Ride the Ducks International negligent in the 2015 Seattle Duck Boat crash, awarding $123 million to victims and their families. After months of trial proceedings and more than a week of deliberations, the [...]
February 6, 2019, Chico, California - - Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., top fire trial lawyer, Diane Marger Moore of the California law firm Baum, Hedlund, Aristei & Goldman and the California Guild will host two town hall meetings for Camp wildfire victims on Saturday February 16 at 10:30 a.m. at [...]
San Francisco, California – Jan. 30, 2019 - -A consortium of law firms have filed a lawsuit against Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E) alleging the utility is responsible for the Camp wildfire that killed 86 people and destroyed thousands of homes in and around the town of Paradise, California. [...]
Jan. 22, 2019 – Los Angeles, California - - Diane Marger Moore from the national law firm of Baum, Hedlund, Aristei & Goldman is one of the first lawyers in the United States to receive board certification as a Truck Accident Law Advocate from the National Board of Trial Advocacy [...]
