This appeared on September 3, 2019, on the Missouri Supreme
Court's list of "Writs and Other Original
Proceedings":
SC98009 State ex rel. Monsanto Company, Relator, vs. The
Honorable Michael K. Mullen, Respondent.
Petition for writ of prohibition
sustained. Preliminary writ ordered to
issue returnable to Court en banc within fifteen days.
(Emphasis original)
We understand, from inside sources, that this notation means is
that Monsanto has won mandamus appeal from an order by St. Louis City Judge Mullen's
allowing a consolidated multi-plaintiff trial based on the
now-discredited (
see State ex rel. Johnson & Johnson v. Burlison, 567
S.W.3d 168 (Mo. 2019)) venue theory that the presence of any
plaintiff residing in the city of St. Louis allows a trial there
that includes multiple plaintiffs who do not live in St. Louis.
Given the notorious predilection that St. Louis City judges have
shown towards such consolidated trials, this ruling could well
impact a
