BAYER CROPSCIENCE LP v. SCHAFER

No. 10-1246.

385 S.W.3d 822 (2011)

2011 Ark. 518

BAYER CROPSCIENCE LP; Bayer CropScience Holding, Inc.; Bayer CropScience AG; Bayer AG; and Bayer BioScience NV, Appellants, v. Randy SCHAFER; end of the Road Farms, Inc.; Schafer Planting Co.; Wallace Farms; Robert E. Moery; Kyle Moery; Carter Farms Partnership; Petrus Farms, Inc.; Robert Petrus, Individually and as Trustee of the Robert Petrus Revocable Trust; R & B Amaden Farms; Randall J. Snider; R & S Planting Co., Inc.; S & R Farms; A.S. Kelly and Sons; Neil Daniels Farms, Appellees.

Supreme Court of Arkansas.

December 8, 2011.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Gordon Smeade Rather Jr. , Edwin L. Lowther Jr. , Scott Andrew Irby and Gary D. Marts, Jr. , Little Rock, Donald E. Scott , Denver, CO, for appellants.

John Paul Byrd , Little Rock, Scott A. Powell , Don McKenna and Bruce J. McKee , Birmingham, AL, Rebecca Margaret Byrd Dobson, for appellees.

Barry Deacon , Andrew H. Dallas and Jason M. Milne , for the Amicus Curiae Riceland Foods, Inc.

Brian G. Brooks , Greenbrier, for the Amicus Curiae Arkansas Trial Lawyers Assoc.

Roger D. Rowe , Little Rock, for the Amicus Curiae USA Rice Federation, Inc.


COURTNEY HUDSON GOODSON, Justice.

Appellants Bayer CropScience LP; Bayer CropScience Holding, Inc.; Bayer CropScience AG; Bayer AG; and Bayer BioScience NV (collectively "Bayer") appeal the judgment entered by the Circuit Court of Lonoke County awarding $5,975,605 in compensatory damages and $42,000,000 in punitive damages to appellees, who are the following rice farmers or farming entities: Randy Schafer; End of the Road Farms, Inc.; Schafer Planting Co.; Wallace...

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