Judge Dismisses Individual Public Nuisance Claim, Defers Decision Beyond That

(June 13, 2023, 12:38 PM EDT) -- EAST ST. LOUIS, Ill. — A federal judge in Illinois on June 12 dismissed a public nuisance claim related to paraquat litigation brought by an individual, but deferred ruling on all public nuisance claims in the multidistrict litigation as a whole, ruling that in the individual case the complaint is “entirely devoid of factual allegations suggesting the type of special injury necessary to confer standing” for the nuisance claim....