( March 12, 2025, 17:38 GMT | Official Statement) -- MLex Summary: Bayer Corteva, Cargill, Corteva and other chemical producers asked a US appeals court to affirm the dismissal of claims that they conspired to block competition from producers of generic “crop protection chemicals,” arguing that plaintiffs failed to sufficiently showed parallel conduct. “Instead of the required parallel conduct, plaintiffs allege a hodgepodge of disparate, unilateral acts by only some of the sixteen defendants, at different points in time. None are both (1) ‘similar’ and (2) temporally proximate, and thus none indicates parallel conduct,” they argued.See attached file. ...
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