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CARSON v. MONSANTO CO.

No. 21-10994.

51 F.4th 1358 (2022)

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

United States Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit.

Date Filed: October 28, 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 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, LLP, 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 and Alberta Pilliod.

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

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

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 Amici Curiae Chamber of Commerce of the United States of America and the Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America.

William Robert Stein , Attorney, Hughes Hubbard & Reed, LLP, Washington, DC, for Amicus Curiae Products Liability Advisory Council, Inc.

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

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

We vacate and withdraw our previous opinion dated July 12, 2022, 39 F.4th 1334 (11th Cir. 2022), and substitute the following opinion.

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...

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