{"id":165023,"date":"2026-10-15T06:41:46","date_gmt":"2026-10-15T14:41:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/?p=165023"},"modified":"2026-10-15T06:41:46","modified_gmt":"2026-10-15T14:41:46","slug":"us-judge-orders-plaintiffs-lawyer-to-disclose-financial-interests-in-paraquat-lawsuits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2026\/10\/15\/us-judge-orders-plaintiffs-lawyer-to-disclose-financial-interests-in-paraquat-lawsuits\/","title":{"rendered":"US Judge Orders Plaintiffs’ Lawyer to Disclose ‘Financial Interests’ in Paraquat Lawsuits"},"content":{"rendered":"

U.S. District Judge Nancy Rosenstengel, who is overseeing 6,600 paraquat lawsuits in the Southern District of Illinois, told Allen Smith of The Smith Law Firm that she was concerned only 49 of his 750 clients were participating in a proposed settlement: “I want to be sure the decisions are made by the right people.”<\/p>\n

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U.S. District Judge Nancy Rosenstengel, who is overseeing 6,600 paraquat lawsuits in the Southern District of Illinois, told Allen Smith of The Smith Law Firm that she was concerned only 49 of his 750 clients were participating in a proposed settlement: “I want to be sure the decisions are made by the right people.”<\/p>\n

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U.S. District Judge Nancy Rosenstengel, who is overseeing 6,600 paraquat lawsuits in the Southern District of Illinois, told Allen Smith of The Smith Law Firm that she was concerned only 49 of his 750 clients were participating in a proposed settlement: “I want to be sure the decisions are made by the right people.” \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":165024,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-165023","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-law-com"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165023","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=165023"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165023\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":165026,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165023\/revisions\/165026"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/165024"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=165023"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=165023"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=165023"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}