Cancer Victim’s Glyphosate Case Should Not Be Remanded; Parties Improperly Joined

Mealey's (April 27, 2020, 12:39 PM EDT) -- SAN FRANCISCO — Monsanto Co. on April 24 filed a brief in California federal court contending that a cancer victim should not be permitted to amend his complaint and have the case remanded to state court in his attempt to hold Monsanto liable for injuring him as a result of his exposure to glyphosate, the active ingredient in the herbicide Roundup, because he fraudulently joined two nondiverse defendants (In re Roundup Products Liability Litigation [Mike Sapinsky v. Monsanto Co.], MDL 2741, No. 20-257, N.D. Calif.)....