IN RE SYNGENTA AG MIR 162 CORN LITIGATION

Nos. 19-3008, 19-3022, 19-3079, 19-3176, 19-3280 Nos. 19-3032, 20-3002 No. 19-3174, No. 19-3175, No. 19-3178, No. 19-3279, No. 19-3284.

61 F.4th 1126 (2023)

IN RE: SYNGENTA AG MIR 162 CORN LITIGATION (Toups/Coffman Plaintiffs' Counsel) In re: Syngenta AG MIR 162 Corn Litigation (Kansas Common Benefit Firms) In re: Syngenta AG MIR 162 Corn Litigation (Byrd/Shields Group) In re: Syngenta AG MIR 162 Corn Litigation (Johnson Becker, PLLC) In re: Syngenta AG MIR 162 (Hossley-Embry Group) In re: Syngenta AG MIR 162 Corn Litigation (Law Office of Craig Eiland, P.C.) In re: Syngenta AG MIR 162 Corn Litigation (Demerath Group)

United States Court of Appeals, Tenth Circuit.

FILED February 28, 2023.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Eric Alan Isaacson , Law Office of Eric Alan Isaacson, La Jolla, California ( Mitchell A. Toups , Weller, Green Toups & Terrell, LLP, Beaumont, Texas; Richard L. Coffman , The Coffman Law Firm, Beaumont, Texas; D. Allen Hossley , Hossley-Embry, LLP, Dallas, Texas, with him on the briefs), the Toups/Coffman Plaintiffs' Counsel & Hossley-Embry for the Kansas Pool Appellants.

Christina J. Nielsen , Nielsen Law Firm, Woodbridge, Virginia, Jeffrey A. Lamken , Eric R. Nitz , and Caleb Hayes-Deats , MoloLamken LLP, Washington, D.C., William P. Ferranti , The Ferranti Firm LLC, Portland, Oregon, and Thomas J. Wiegand and Matthew J. Fisher , MoloLamken, Chicago, Illinois, for the Minnesota Appellants Watts Guerra, LLP, Paul Byrd Law Firm, PLLC, and Shields Law Group, LLC.

David Campbell , O'Hanlon, Demerath & Castillo, PC, Austin, Texas ( Justin B. Demerath , O'Hanlon, Demerath & Castillo, PC, Austin, Texas; A. Craig Eiland , The Law Offices of A. Craig Eiland, PC, Austin, Texas, with him on the briefs), for the Illinois Appellants, and Clayton A. Clark and Scott A. Love , Clark Love Hutson, Houston, Texas, and Martin J. Phipps , Phipps Anderson Deacon LLP, San Antonio, Texas, and Peter J. Flowers , Meyers & Flowers, LLC, St. Charles, Illinois, joined in the supplemental brief for The Clark/Phipps Group.

Timothy J. Becker ( Michael K. Johnson with him on the briefs) Johnson Becker, PLLC, Saint Paul, Minnesota, for Appellants.

Bradley T. Wilders , Stueve Siegel Hanson LLP, Kansas City, Missouri, and William Lewis Garrison, Jr. , Heninger Garrison Davis, LLC, Birmingham, Alabama ( Patrick J. Stueve and Rachel Schwartz , Stueve Siegel Hanson LLP, Kansas City, Missouri; Don M. Downing and Gretchen Garrison , Gray, Ritter & Graham, P.C., St. Louis, Missouri; William B. Chaney and Drew York, Gray Reed & McCraw, LLP, Dallas, Texas; Scott Powell , Bruce McKee and Tempe Smith , Hare Wynn Newell & Newton, Birmingham, Alabama; the MDL Co-Lead Plaintiffs' Counsel on behalf of Kansas Common Benefit; and Daniel E. Gustafson , Gustafson Gluek PLLC, Minneapolis, Minnesota; Lewis A. Remele, Jr. , Bassford Remele, A Professional Association, Minneapolis, Minnesota and William R. Sieben , Schwebel Goetz & Sieben PA, Minneapolis, Minnesota the Minnesota Co-Lead Counsel; and Christopher A. Seeger , Stephen A. Weiss , Diogenes P. Kekatos , Seeger Weiss LLP, Ridgefield Park, New Jersey, the Settlement Class Counsel; Christopher B. Hood , Heninger Garrison Davis, LLC, Birmingham, Alabama, the Illinois Mass Action Lead Counsel, with them on the briefs) for the Joint Appellees.

Before HOLMES, Chief Judge, and BACHARACH and McHUGH, Circuit Judges.


These appeals concern attorneys' fees awarded following a historic class action settlement. Numerous plaintiffs from multiple different states—but, mainly, Kansas, Minnesota, and Illinois—sued Syngenta AG ("Syngenta"), an agricultural company. The suits against Syngenta were organized into complex, federal multi...

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