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