Mealey's (June 2, 2023, 11:10 AM EDT) -- CHICAGO — Illinois filed a brief in federal court opposing a motion to compel discovery filed by Monsanto Co. in a polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) contamination case, arguing that its attempt to compel discovery “from every single Illinois state agency, department, commission, and so forth” should be denied because in litigation brought pursuant to the attorney general’s independent authority to act on behalf of the state, state agencies are not subject to party discovery....