Tobias Bermudez Chavez, et al. v. Occidental Chemical Corporation

Arbitration court
Farm/rural workers
Occidental Chemical Corporation
DBCP
January 10, 2018
United States, New York

01.10.2018, NY Judge opens door to pesticide-injury suit filed out-of-state. In 1993, banana plantations workers from…

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D.J.E.F s/ Amparo

Civil court
Neighbours
Farmers
Herbicide, Insecticide, Glyphosate, Cypermethrin
No description
Argentina, Buenos Aires Province

The preventive approach,that aims to prevent destruction or pollution takes legal measures out of their traditional role to…

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Grynberg, Jimena Judith y otros s/ Acción de amparo

Criminal court
Neighbours
Farmers
Herbicide, 2,4-D
October 21, 2014
Argentina, Buenos Aires Province

A farmer sprayed 2,4-D herbicide in a field located at less than 2 km from Martín Fierro rural school during class hours in Coronel…

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Federal Public Prosecutor’s Office v. M.G. Ribeiro et al

Civil court
Justice
Mauricio Gruenwaldt, Francesco Nathan Da Fonseca Caneppele, C. Vale Cooperativa Agroindustrial
Fungicide, Nativo, Tebuconazole, Trifloxystrobin
January 12, 2018
Brazil, Dourados, Mato Grosso do Sul

The Guarani Kaiowá community of Tey’i Jusu was aerially sprayed with the fungicide Nativo directly on their homes on 11 April 2015,…

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Association SEPANT v. Prefecture of Indre-et-Loire

Administrative
Environmental NGOs
Préfect of Indre-et-Loire
Other
January 9, 2018
France, Orléans

Plaintiffs challenge Prefectoral Order of 7/21/2017 defining the areas of non-treatment by pesticides taken by the Prefect of Indre-et-Loire…

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