Meyers & Flowers, an Illinois-based law firm, leading the Syngenta litigation for the Plaintiffs, Illinois corn farmers, announce the cases will be transferred to the Circuit Court of Williamson County, Illinois, to secure local farmers’ participation in court proceedings. Meyers & Flowers can now file all cases for farmers in the United States against Syngenta Seeds, Inc. The Meyers & Flowers team is collaborating with ally Mark Prince, Attorney of The Prince Law Firm. This is the first step in ensuring the 96 percent of the cases originated in Williamson County will be heard including the farming community affected by the actions of Syngenta Seeds Inc., one of the largest agribusiness corporations in the world.

In 2011, Syngenta began marketing, distributing and commercializing its genetically modified corn seed, Agrisure Viptera GMO prior to receiving approval for import to China, one of the largest importers of U.S. raised corn in the world, according to the plaintiffs. Corn farmers who invested and planted the seed have been impacted, as well as the local farmers whose crops were contaminated by this seed through transfer. China began rejecting U.S. shipments of corn due to traces of this unapproved seed, MIR162, in 2013.

“Syngenta’s actions have resulted in billions of dollars in damages to the Illinois farmers and have threatened the entire American agricultural industry,” said Peter Flowers, Partner of Meyers & Flowers. “We have now secured the litigation in Williamson County where the farms that have been hit the most are located. We will work tireless to seek justice for the damages that Syngenta has inflicted on our farmers and the American farming industry as a whole. Each individual case must be heard in order to understand the full economic impact and personal devastation that has occurred as a result of these seeds contaminating American farmland.”

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