Plaintiff In Roundup MDL: $2B Proposed Settlement Is Not ‘Substantively Fair’

Mealey's (March 9, 2021, 8:43 AM EST) -- SAN FRANCISCO — A plaintiff in the multidistrict litigation for the liability action against Monsanto Co. related to its herbicide Roundup on March 4 filed a brief in California federal court contending that the $2 billion settlement proposed by Monsanto’s parent company Bayer Corp. is “neither constitutionally permissible” nor “substantively fair to putative class members.”...