GMO Corn Lawsuit’s $7 Million Attorneys’ Fee Agreement Upheld

A settlement agreement divying up some of the attorneys’ fees from a $1.51 billion lawsuit over genetically modified corn was upheld by a federal appeals court Monday.

The US Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit said the firms challenging the settlement agreement had no standing to do so since the agreement wouldn’t impact their awards.

After Syngenta AG released GMO seeds in China before receiving regulatory approval, US corn producers were shut out from the Chinese market. The farmers—primarily from Kansas, Minnesota, and Illinois—then sued Syngenta and thousands of suits were consolidated in multidistrict litigation before the US District ...