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Nature of Suit Code: 365
Nature of Suit: Personal Injury - Product Liability
Cause of Action: 28:1332 Diversity-Personal Injury

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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

IN RE: ROUNDUP PRODUCTS 

LIABILITY LITGATION

MDL No. 2741

Case No. 16-md-02741-VC

This document relates to: 

Hardeman v. Monsanto, 3:16-cv-00525-VC PRETRIAL ORDER NO. 138: 

INSTRUCTION ON NONECONOMIC 

DAMAGES

Under California law, it appears that the jury should not be instructed on life expectancy 

in connection with noneconomic damages. See, e.g., Galindo v. Tassio, No. C13-00105 HRL, 

2014 WL 12693525, at *2 (N.D. Cal. June 19, 2014) (holding, in a wrongful death case, that life 

expectancy should only be taken into account for economic damages); see also CACI No. 3921 

(instructing jurors to consider life expectancy when evaluating the loss of future financial 

support). The Court sees no reason why life expectancy would be relevant to the calculation of 

noneconomic losses in a personal injury action, but not in a wrongful death action. 

IT IS SO ORDERED.

Date: March 26, 2019 ___________________________

Honorable Vince Chhabria

United States District Court

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