Riceland Foods, Inc. v. Bayer CropScience US

COLLOTON, Circuit Judge.

Bayer AG, along with several of its corporate subsidiaries, and Riceland, Inc., appeal an order of the district court 2 requiring Bayer to cause the deposit of a portion of a settlement between Bayer and Rice-land into a common-benefit trust fund. This fund was established to compensate attorneys leading the multidistrict litigation (“MDL”) concerning Bayer’s Liber-tyLink LL601 genetically modified rice. We addressed challenges to the creation of the fund in In re Genetically Modified Rice Litigation (Rice I), 764 F.3d 864, 870-71, 873-74 (8th Cir.2014).

Bayer and…