CARSON v. MONSANTO CO.

No. 21-10994.

39 F.4th 1334 (2022)

John D. CARSON, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. MONSANTO COMPANY, Defendant-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit.

Filed: July 12, 2022.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Ashleigh Ruth Madison , Southeast Law, LLC, Savannah, GA, for Plaintiff-Appellant.

Michael X. Imbroscio , David Meir Zionts , Covington & Burling, LLP, Washington, DC, Chase E. Boswell , Michael J. Thomas , Pennington, PA, Tallahassee, FL, Martin C. Calhoun , Joe Gregory Hollingsworth , Eric Gordon Lasker , Hollingsworth, LLP, Washington, DC, Kenneth Lee Marshall , Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner, San Francisco, CA, for Defendant-Appellee.

Ashley Conrad Keller , Keller Postman, LLC, Chicago, IL, for Amicus Curiae Public Law Scholars.

Jennifer A. Moore , Moore Law Group, PLLC, Louisville, KY, Aimee Wagstaff , Andrus Wagstaff, Lakewood, CO, David Wool , Wool Trial Law, Denver, CO, for Edwin Hardeman.

Adina H. Rosenbaum , Allison M. Zieve , Public Citizen Litigation Group, Washington, DC, for Amicus Curiae Public Citizen.

Aimee Wagstaff , Andrus Wagstaff, Lakewood, CO, R. Brent Wisner , Baum Hedlund Aristei & Goldman, Los Angeles, CA, David Wool , Wool Trial Law, Denver, CO, for Ava Pilliod, Alberta Pilliod.

Alisa A. Coe , Earthjustice, Tallahassee, FL, for Amici Curiae Farmworker Association of Florida, Pesticide Action Network, United Farm Workers & UFW Foundation, Farmworker Justice, Migrant Clinicians Network.

Shannen Wayne Coffin , Mark Christopher Savignac , Sara Beth Watson , Steptoe & Johnson, LLP, Washington, DC, for CropLife America.

William Robert Stein , Attorney, Hughes Hubbard & Reed, LLP, Washington, DC, Thomas Lee , Law Office of Thomas Lee, New York, NY, Theodore Mayer , Hughes Hubbard & Reed, LLP, New York, NY, for The Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America, Chamber of Commerce of the United States of America.

Leslie A. Brueckner , Senior Attorney, Bailey & Glasser, LLP, Oakland, CA, David Wool , Wool Trial Law, Denver, CO, for Amiens Curiae Public Justice, P.C.

Before Rosenbaum, Tjoflat, Circuit Judges, and Moody, District Judge.


Federal preemption is a bitter pill. We should administer it carefully. And, applying such care to the present case, we hold that John Carson's Georgia failure to warn claim is not preempted by the federal requirements under the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act...

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