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

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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

IN RE: ROUNDUP PRODUCTS 

LIABILITY LITIGATION

This document relates to:

ALL ACTIONS

MDL No. 2741

Case No. 16-md-02741-VC 

PRETRIAL ORDER NO. 9: 

SETTING HEARING FOR SCIENCE 

DAY AND MOTION TO COMPEL 

ROWLAND DEPOSITION

Re: Dkt. Nos. 113, 114, 117, 121

As discussed at the January 27 case management conference, "Science Day" will take 

place on February 27, 2017, at 9:30 am. Science Day is intended to offer an informal overview 

of the basic science underpinning the parties' dispute, with the goal of better preparing the Court 

to evaluate the studies and expert testimony that will be presented during October's Daubert

proceedings. The parties will not be permitted to make presentations on the merits, and they may 

not discuss the studies or organizations they agree or disagree with. Although each side will 

make its own presentation, the discussion will be nonadversarial, and parties will not be

permitted to cite testimony or materials submitted at Science Day later in this or any other 

proceeding. The proceedings will not be part of the record. 

A hearing will take place on the plaintiffs' motion to compel the deposition of Jess 

Rowland on February 27, 2017, at 2:00 pm.

The motion to seal portions of the January 23 case management statement was denied at 

the case management conference as meritless. See Civil L.R. 79-5(d)(1)(A) ("Reference to a 

stipulation or protective order that allows a party to designate certain document as confidential is 

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not sufficient to establish that a document, or portions thereof, are sealable."). The plaintiffs' 

request for an order limiting the form of Monsanto's deposition objections was also denied,

without prejudice. This terminates Dkt. No. 117.

IT IS SO ORDERED.

Dated: February 2, 2017

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VINCE CHHABRIA

United States District Judge

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