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Plaintiffs’ lawyers in several states are investigating cases of non-Hodgkin lymphoma and other forms of cancer in individuals exposed to the widely used herbicide glyphosate. These investigations follow on the heels of a 2015 report by a working group at the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), which concludes that glyphosate is probably
Rob Herrington, co-chair of Greenberg Traurig’s National Products Liability and Mass Torts Practice, will be a featured faculty member at Bridgeport Continuing Education’s upcoming 2015 Class Action Litigation & Management Conference. This two-day event will be held April 16-17, at the Millennium Biltmore Hotel, located at 506 S. Grand Avenue, Los Angeles, Calif. 90071. The conference will examine the class action landscape, which continued to evolve dramatically in 2013 and 2014, and promises more of the same in 2015. Arbitration, rigorous inquiry, nationwide class certification, marketing reliance, actual injury and market remedial actions are all issues that dominated class action orders and opinions. Developments in economic product defect, market misrepresentation, privacy and pure omissions class actions impact most class action practitioners currently prosecuting or defending these cases.
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