( March 19, 2025, 2:36 PM EDT) -- SEATTLE — A Washington state court judge ordered four attorneys for Monsanto Co. to pay $2,500 each in sanctions for violating court orders and formally reprimanded four others in relation to their conduct during a trial that led to a $100 million verdict for the plaintiffs, who were exposed to polychlorinated biphenyls(PCBs) at a Seattle area school. The judge said he was “faced with this disagreeable task” because Monsanto’s attorneys “violated several of the Court’s scheduling orders, which had the effect of disrupting these proceedings and prejudicing Plaintiffs’ trial preparation.”...