IN RE GENETICALLY MODIFIED RICE LITIGATION

Case No. 406MD1811 CDP.

666 F.Supp.2d 1004 (2009)

In re GENETICALLY MODIFIED RICE LITIGATION.

United States District Court, E.D. Missouri, Eastern Division.

October 9, 2009.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Stephen N. Limbaugh, Sr., Armstrong Teasdale, LLP, St. Louis, MO, pro se.

J. Michael Ponder, Phillip J. Barkett, Jr., Cook and Barkett, Cape Girardeau, MO, Don M. Downing, Thomas K. Neill, Jason D. Sapp, Gretchen Garrison, Gray and Ritter, P.C, Jerome J. Schlichter, Matthew H. Armstrong, Schlichter, Bogard & Denton, St. Louis, MO, Jim S. Green, Sikeston, MO, Adam J. Levitt, Wolf Haldenstein Adler Freeman & Herz LLC, Chicago, IL, Stacey T. Kelly, Wolf Haldenstein Adler, Deborah Clark-Weintraub, Joe Whatley, Jr., Whatley and Drake, New York, NY, Alton C. Todd, Law Firm of Alton C. Todd, Friendswood, TX, Martin J. Phipps, Goldman and Pennebaker, P.C., San Antonio, TX, Scott A. Powell, James J. Thompson, Jr., Hare and Wynn, LLP, Adam P. Plant, Whatley and Drake, Birmingham, AL, Jennifer Hoekstra, John R. Whaley, Richard J. Arsenault, Neblett and Beard, Benjamin Eric Crooker, Raymond L. Brown, Jr., Gold and Weems, Alexandria, LA, Darrin Lavell Williams, J. Allen Carney, Joseph Henry Bates, III, T. Brent Walker, Hank Bates, Cauley and Bowman, Christopher D. Jennings, John G. Emerson, Scott E. Poynter, Emerson Poynter LLP, Jack Thomas Patterson, II, Patton and Roberts, Jeremy Y. Hutchinson, Patton and Roberts, John S. Cherry, Jr., Perry Lee Wilson, William H. Edwards, Jr., Benjamin K. Pollitzer, Cynthia W. Kolb, Barber and McCaskill, Alex T. Gray, Mitchell and Williams, Michael L. Roberts, Richard Lee Quintus, Stephanie Egner, Roberts Law Firm, P.A., John Paul Byrd, Hare and Wynn, Debra K. Brown, John P. Perkins, III, Steven T. Shults, Shults Law Firm LLP, Charles A. Banks, Banks Law Firm, PLLC, Little Rock, AR, James C. Wyly, Sean Fletcher Rommel, Wyly-Rommel, PLLC, D. Matt Keil, Attorney at Law, Texarkana, TX, Dawn Barrios, Bruce S. Kingsdorf, Barrios and Kingsdorf, Arthur Mahony Murray, Jessica W. Hayes, Nicole Anne Ieyoub-Murray, Stephen B. Murray, Stephen B. Murray, Jr., Murray Law Firm, Lawrence S. Kullman, Paul M. Sterbcow, Lewis and Kullman, New Orleans, LA, Matthew E. Lundy, Hunter W. Lundy, Lundy and Lundy, L.L.P., Barry A. Roach, Michael K. Cox, Cox and Cox, Lake Charles, LA, Jeffrey M. Bassett, Patrick C. Morrow, Morrow and Morrow, Opelousas, LA, Christopher K. Jones, Keogh and Cox, Kirk A. Guidry, Due' Price, Phillip Bohrer, Scott Earl Brady, Bohrer Law Firm, John Jewell Pace, Baton Rouge, LA, Vance R. Andrus, Andrus and Boudreaux, Marcus Lee Fontenot, Becker & Associates, A.P.L.C., Kenneth W. DeJean, Law Office of Kenneth W. Dejean, Lafayette, LA, William S. Neblett, Neblett and Beard, Alexandria, LA, Stuart Halkett McCluer, McCulley McCluer PLLC, Oxford, MS, Andrew K. York, William B. Chaney, Charles Sartain, Michael C. Kelsheimer, William J. French, Looper and Reed, Dallas, TX, Michael Kent Rose, Raymond Lyn Stevens, Stevens and Baldo, Richard L. Coffman, Coffman Law Firm, Beaumont, TX, Donald Haskell Beskind, Twiggs and Beskind, Raleigh, NC, Floyd R. Gilliland, Jr., Nix Holtsford Gilliland Higgins & Hitson, P.C, Janie S. Gilliland, Andy D. Birchfield, Jr., P. Leigh O'Dell, Beasley and Allen, Montgomery, AL, Lynn W. Jinks, III, Nathan A. Dickson, II, Jinks and Daniel, Union Springs, AL, James L. Reed, Jr., Looper and Reed, Shelly A. Sanford, Sanford Pinedo LLP, Richard E. Norman, Crowley, Douglas, and Norman, Houston, TX, Ronald Brooks Collins, Duckett and Bouligny, El Campo, TX, Russell K. Zaunbrecher, Scott A. Stefanski, Edwards and Stefanski, Crowley, LA, Calvin C. Fayard, Jr., D. Blayne Honeycutt, Fayard & Honeycutt, Denham Springs, LA, Timmy J. Fontenot, Mamou, LA, Patrick W. Pendley, Pendley and Braudin, Plaquemine, LA, Ethan L. Shaw, John P. Cowart, Moore and Landrey LLP, Austin, TX, Daniel N. Gallucci, Dianne M. Nast, Joseph F. Roda, Roda and Nast, P.C., Lancaster, PA, Daniel E. Gustafson, Gustafson Gluek PLLC, Minneapolis, MN, Donald K. Carroll, Oak Grove, LA, Grant L. Davis, Shawn G. Foster, Davis and Bethune, Kansas City, MO, John Carlton Laird, Johnny E. Dollar, Dollar and Laird, Monroe, LA, Andrew T. Dulaney, Joseph Ratcliff Dulaney, Dulaney Law Firm, LLP, Tunica, MS, Warren B. Bell, Andrew M.W. Westerfield, Tom Janoush, Westerfield & Janoush, Cleveland, MS, Jerry Kelly, Kelly Law Firm, Carlisle, AR, R. Margaret Dobson, Dobson Law Firm, P.A., Sheridan, AR, Jon A. Swartzfager, Jon A. Swartzfager, Laurel, MS, Justin G. Witkin, Aylstock and Witkin, Gulf Breeze, FL, Raymond R. Abramson, Law Offices of Raymond R. Abramson, Clarendon, AR, Ralph E. Chapman, Chapman And Lewis, Clarksdale, MS, David D. Tyler, Jim Lyons, Lyons and Emerson, P.L.C., Jonesboro, AR, for Plaintiffs.

Terry R. Lueckenhoff, Fox Galvin, LLC, Christopher M. Hohn, Matthew A. Braunel, David B. Jinkins, John R. Musgrave, Thompson Coburn, LLP, Thomas M. Buckley, Buckley And Buckley, L.L.C., St. Louis, MO, Charles P. Blanchard, Corrinne A. Morrison, John F. Olinde, Robert S. Rooth, Chaffe and McCall, New Orleans, LA, Charles J. Rother, Cristina K. Lunders, Fulbright and Jaworski, L.L.P., Robert David Arredondo, Manning and Gosda, Charles W. Schwartz, Skadden and Arps, John D. Wittenmyer, Leboeuf & Wittenmyer, P.C., Houston, TX, Douglas J. Gunn, Elizabeth M. Gates, J. Collins Wohner, Jr., J. Grant Sellers, Joseph Jason Stroble, Lindy D. Brown, Molly Mitchell Walker, P. N. Harkins, III, William F. Goodman, III, Watkins and Eager PLLC, Jackson, MS, Douglas W. Poole, Galveston, TX, Edwin L. Lowther, Jr., Wright and Lindsey, Little Rock, AR, Eric R. Olson, Glen E. Summers, Jameson R. Jones, John M. Hughes, Sundeep K. Addy, Bartlit and Beck, LLP, Denver, CO, Georgia Alexakis, Katherine G. Minarik, Lester C. Houtz, Mark E. Ferguson, Martha M. Pacold, Stephen Cowen, Bartlit and Beck, Chicago, IL, Richard W. Ellis, Stephen C. Keadey, Ellis and Winters LLP, Raleigh, NC, Terry O. Tottenham, Fulbright and Jaworski, L.L.P., Austin, TX, Pamela R. Mascari, Vance A. Gibbs, Kean and Miller, Thomas R. Peak, Taylor and Porter, LLP, Baton Rouge, LA, James David Bradbury, Fort Worth, TX, Richard Lusby, Roger McNeil, Womack and Landis, P.A., Jonesboro, AR, for Defendants.


MEMORANDUM AND ORDER

CATHERINE D. PERRY, District Judge.

The parties have filed a number of motions for summary judgment and to exclude or limit expert testimony. This multi-district litigation relates to the claims of U.S. long-grain rice producers, and others in the rice business, who allege that certain defendants contaminated the U.S. rice supply with non-approved genetically modified strains of rice. The first of a series of bellwether trials...

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