California Court Denies Monsanto’s Petition To Rehear $86.74M Glyphosate Verdict

Mealey's (August 24, 2021, 5:55 PM EDT) -- SAN FRANCISCO — A California appeals panel on Aug. 25 denied a petition for rehearing filed by Monsanto Co. just two days earlier, which had sought reconsideration of that panel’s divided decision that affirmed a $86,742,310 glyphosate cancer verdict.  Monsanto had argued that the court needed to consider “facts set forth in the dissenting opinion which are not discussed in the court’s majority opinion.”  In a note accompanying the one-sentence denial, the panel mentioned that one of the judges would have granted Monsanto’s petition....