Calif. Court Grants Motion to Bifurcate Discovery in Roundup Exposure Suit
August 17, 2016
DOCUMENTS
- Order
SAN DIEGO –– A California federal court has granted a motion to bifurcate discovery in a Roundup exposure suit over plaintiff objections, opining that whether Roundup is capable of causing non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma is a threshold issue “on which of plaintiff’s claims rest.”
In the Aug. 2 order, the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California said that “competent expert testimony is generally necessary to establish causation in a personal injury action.”
“The allegations in plaintiff’s complaint span forty years and delve into defendant’s marketing, labeling, and testing of Roundup,” the court said. “Proceeding immediately on all issues would …
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