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Center for Food Safety v. Environmental Protection Agency

A district court denied in part and dismissed in part environmental groups' motion for summary judgment in a lawsuit concerning the use of seeds treated with pesticides. The groups petitioned EPA to subject treated seeds to FIFRA, arguing the Agency could not exempt them from a separate registration...

Schaffner v. Monsanto Corp.

The Third Circuit reversed a ruling that held FIFRA did not preempt state-law tort duties to include a cancer warning on a weedkiller label. A landscaper had argued the agrochemicals company that produces the weedkiller violated Pennsylvania law by omitting the cancer warning from its label. The app...

BlueRibbon Coalition, Inc. v. U.S Bureau of Land Management

A district court denied outdoor recreation groups' request to halt implementation of BLM's 2023 travel management plan (TMP) closing over 300 miles of routes previously available for off-highway vehicle use on public lands within the Labyrinth/Gemini Bridges Travel Management Area in Utah. The group...

Carson v. Monsanto

The Eleventh Circuit vacated a district court's conclusion that FIFRA expressly preempted a state failure-to-warn claim brought by a Georgia landowner against the manufacturer of the weedkiller Roundup. The landowner argued the weedkiller caused his cancer and sued the manufacturer for failing to wa...

Migrant Clinicians Network v. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency

The Ninth Circuit granted in part and denied in part environmental and public interest groups' petition to review EPA's amended pesticide registrations of streptomycin sulfate for use in combating citrus diseases. The groups argued EPA's determination that the registration would not cause "unreasona...

Carson v. Monsanto Co.

In an en banc decision, the Eleventh Circuit vacated a panel opinion in a lawsuit concerning a Georgia resident's cancer following decades of using a weedkiller containing glyphosate. The resident argued the weedkiller's manufacturer knew or should have known its product was carcinogenic, but failed...

Murphy Co. v. Biden

The Ninth Circuit affirmed summary judgment for the U.S. government in a challenge to President Obama's issuance of a proclamation expanding the Cascade-Siskiyou National Monument in southwestern Oregon. A timber company argued the proclamation was an invalid exercise of the Antiquities Act because ...

Center for Food Safety v. Regan

The Ninth Circuit granted in part and denied in part petitions to review EPA's 2019 amended registration of the pesticide sulfoxaflor. Environmental groups alleged that the registration, which unconditionally approved new uses of sulfoxaflor requested by the company that created the pesticide, viola...