Paraquat Defendants Submit Recent Acetaminophen Order Excluding Experts as Supplemental Authority

EAST ST. LOUIS, Ill. –– The defendants named in the national multidistrict litigation docket for Paraquat personal injury cases have asked the court to take notice of a recent order excluding causation experts in an MDL for acetaminophen claims, in which that court found that the plaintiff experts did not have admissible evidence to prove their claims.

In a notice filed Dec. 22 in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Illinois, defendants Syngenta Crop Protection LLC, Syngenta AG, and Chevron U.S.A. Inc. said that the recent decision should be considered as supplemental authority when the instant court …