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Mass Torts and Personal Injury, Explained in Plain English By Michael Stanisci | #MassTortMichael | Week of July 3, 2026 A Note From Me Before We Start This week's edition is a heavy one for me. We lost Paul Napoli on Tuesday. He was 58 years old [1]. Paul was a giant in this industry, and he was my friend. I want to start there, because the rest of this newsletter, all the cases and numbers and strategy, only matters because of people like him. People who decided that fighti

Today, June 25, 2026, the Supreme Court decided Monsanto v. Durnell 7-2. Justice Brett Kavanaugh wrote the majority opinion, holding that FIFRA expressly preempts state-law failure-to-warn claims against Monsanto for not putting a cancer warning on Roundup. Let me tell you what that really means, why it happened, and where we can go from here. Much smarter lawyers and individuals than me are thankfully at the helm, so more information will emerge on strategy that I'm certain

Mass Tort and Personal Injury Update | June 18, 2026 Edition By Michael Stanisci, MassTortMichael A note to law firms: this newsletter is built to be shared. Take it. Put your logo on it. Send it to your clients, your past clients, and your referral network . All I ask is that you keep the attribution to MassTortMichael. The people who need this information are the ones who never see it. You can be the one who shows them. 1. Opening Note from Michael I have been doing this lo