Cotton v. Monsanto

Reference :

RIC-1903180

Complaint date :

No description

Status :

Not judged

Place of jurisdiction :

United States, Riverside County, California

Plaintiffs types :

Individuals

Plaintiffs names :

Treesa Cotton

Defendants :

Monsanto

Lawyers for Health and Environmental Justice :

Lori Andrus, Jennie Lee Anderson

Case nature :

Civil court

Specificities :

Jury

Type(s), Product(s), Active substance(s) :

Herbicide, Glyphosate, Roundup

Requests :

Compensatory and punitive damages ; awarding Plaintiff her costs, expenses, and reasonable attorney’s fees incurred in this matter; further relief as the Court deems just and proper. Demand for Jury Trial.

Name of the Court :

Superior Court of Riverside County, California, United States

Jurisdiction level :

Summary :

Plaintiff has used Roundup on her property for several years and was diagnosed with non-Hodgkin lymphoma in 2015 and now “requires and relies on both a private care giver and her family for care and assistance”. Supposed to begin on Jan. 24, 2020, it has been postponed until July 2020, while settlement talks are going on.

Scientific references :

IARC Working Group on the Evaluation of Carcinogenic Risks to Humans. Some Organophosphate Insecticides and Herbicides. Lyon (FR): International Agency for Research on Cancer; 2017. PMID: 31829533.