NTL President, 93 Law Firms, and 167 Lawyers Are Opposing Proposed Settlement of Future Roundup Claims
National Trial Lawyers President Lisa Blue, individually and on behalf of the organization’s approximately 14,000 members, joined yesterday in the amici curiae brief filed last week by ninety-three law firms and 167 lawyers nationwide opposing a proposed class action settlement of all future claims against Monsanto by injured people charging that Roundup caused their cancer – including claims by people who have no injury or cancer now and may not have any for decades. The Joinder in Opposition filed by Blue, past President of the American Association for Justice, in federal court in San Francisco Monday afternoon, says the proposed settlement “will hurt the proposed class members, not help them.”
The National Trial Lawyers (NTL) is a professional organization of approximately 14,000 civil and criminal trial lawyers from across the country, a significant portion of whom practice mass tort litigation. The Joinder in Opposition agrees with the amici curiae that “the proposed settlement seriously endangers access to justice for millions of people in the proposed class, would prevent Monsanto’s victims from holding it accountable, and would reward Monsanto in numerous respects.”
