BOOTHE FARMS, INC. v. DOW CHEMICAL CO.

No. 3:19-cv-264-DPM.

487 F.Supp.3d 758 (2020)

BOOTHE FARMS, INC.; Big Risk Farms, Inc.; Terry Boothe; Adam Boothe; Rinehart Family Farms II; MM Family Farms; and William J. Dore, each individually and on behalf of all those similarly situated, Plaintiffs v. DOW CHEMICAL CO.; Dow Agrosciences, LLC; Corteva, Inc.; and E. du Pont de Nemours and Co., Defendants.

United States District Court, E.D. Arkansas, Northern Division.

Signed September 16, 2020.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Arthur M. Murray , Pro Hac Vice, Stephen B. Murray, Jr. , Pro Hac Vice, Murray Law Firm, New Orleans, LA, Charles A. Banks , Banks Law Firm, PLLC, Little Rock, AR, Clayton J. Smaistrla , Saucier & Smaistrla PLLC, San Antonio, TX, James J. Pizzirusso , Hausfeld LLP, Washington, DC, Kimberly A. Fetsick , Pro Hac Vice, Hausfeld LLP, New York, NY, for Plaintiffs.

E. B. Chiles, IV , John E, Tull, III , Thomas Christoph Keller , Quattlebaum; Grooms & Tull PLLC, Little Rock, AR, John P. Mandler , Shane A. Anderson , Pro Hac Vice, Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP, Minneapolis, MN, Ross W. Johnson , Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP, Des Moines, IA, for Defendants.


ORDER

Dow moves to dismiss some of the claims in the amended complaint by the Arkansas, Missouri, and new Louisiana rice farmers. A prescription (limitations) issue about the Louisiana claims was argued but abandoned for now in the briefing. This is Dow's second motion to dismiss. The farmers...

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