On April 22, 2026 ALF Executive Vice President & General Counsel Larry Ebner participated in a webinar panel previewing the Supreme Court oral argument in Monsanto Co. v. Durnell (24-1068). The question presented by the case is whether FIFRA, the federal pesticide regulatory statute, preempts state-law failure-to-warn claims based on a pesticide producer’s failure to provide a health-related label warning that U.S. EPA, based on extensive review of scientific data, has determined is not required or allowed. ALF filed both petition-stage and merits-stage amicus briefs urging the Supreme Court to uphold preemption. See Supreme Court Should End Roundup Failure-To-Warn Litigation.
The webinar was hosted and moderated by Glenn G. Lammi, Executive Director & Vice President of Legal Studies at the Washington Legal Foundation. Attorneys who filed amicus briefs for other organizations also participated. ALF was pleased to collaborate on the panel as a way to demonstrate a unified position on the important federal preemption issue raised by the case. ALF long has advocated for sound science in judicial and regulatory proceedings, which would be seriously undermined if lay juries around the United States were free to second-guess EPA’s science-based determinations about pesticide label warnings.
Click below to view the panel discussion.
