Judge Denies Farmer’s Interim Class Counsel Motion In Roundup MDL

Mealey's (April 29, 2020, 1:26 PM EDT) -- SAN FRANCISCO — A federal judge in California on April 27 denied a motion by a farmer who sought the appointment of interim counsel for a putative class of people who used the herbicide Roundup, ruling that the farmer’s motion provided no evidence that the plaintiffs seeking interim counsel are “competing over diminishing assets” and there was no reason to depart from the standard order of operations for class actions (In re Roundup Products Liability Litigation [Sheller v Bayer AG], MDL 2741, No. 19-7972, N.D. Calif.)....