Legal Opinion
City of Greenville, Illinois v. Syngenta Crop Protection, LLC
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided August 20, 2014No. 13-1626PublishedCited by 53 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
EASTERBROOK, Circuit Judge.
The herbicide atrazine is banned in the European Union but widely used in this nation. The EPA has decided that it is safe; some environmentalists deem it unsafe. Various Midwestern municipalities and water boards charged with filtering public drinking supplies brought this suit against Syngenta, the corporate family that manufactures and distributes the chemical. Those claims were settled. The merits are now irrelevant, but during discovery Syngenta produced many documents. Two environmental groups intervened to assert that the public is entitled to see them.
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