{"id":161628,"date":"2026-08-27T13:37:24","date_gmt":"2026-08-27T21:37:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2026\/08\/27\/were-not-playing-games-attorney-mark-dicello-in-hot-seat-over-paraquat-clients\/"},"modified":"2026-08-27T13:37:24","modified_gmt":"2026-08-27T21:37:24","slug":"were-not-playing-games-attorney-mark-dicello-in-hot-seat-over-paraquat-clients","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2026\/08\/27\/were-not-playing-games-attorney-mark-dicello-in-hot-seat-over-paraquat-clients\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;We&#8217;re Not Playing Games&#8217;: Attorney Mark DiCello in Hot Seat Over Paraquat Clients"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At a Thursday teleconference, U.S. District Judge Nancy Rosenstengel, who is overseeing 6,600 paraquat cases in the multidistrict litigation in the Southern District of Illinois, said she had \u201cserious concerns  that all of DiCello Levitt&#8217;s clients had opted out of a proposed settlement.<\/p>\n<p><img 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