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152690P.pdf 08/31/2016 Riceland Foods v. Bayer Cropscience US
U.S. Court of Appeals Case No: 15-2690
and No: 15-2693
and No: 15-2850
and No: 15-2893
and No: 15-3245
U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri - St. Louis
[PUBLISHED] [Colloton, Author, with Shepherd, Circuit Judge, and Bough,
District Judge]
Civil case - Class Actions. For the court's prior opinion in the matter
see In re Genetically Modified Rice Litigation, 764 F.3d 864 (8th Cir.
2014). While the court held in the prior opinion that the district court
properly concluded that it lacked jurisdiction to apply its Common-Benefit
Order to state-court only plaintiffs, that case does not control here,
because both Riceland and Bayer were parties to multiple federal lawsuits
before the district court at the time of settlement, and the court had
jurisdiction to enter orders regarding Riceland's settlement of its claims
against Bayer; the district court did not abuse its discretion in the
amount of the allocation it ordered paid into the Common-Benefit Fund from
the Riceland-Bayer settlement; the court did not err in assigning to Bayer
the duty of causing a deposit of the funds due under the Common-Benefit
Order.