LA Supreme Court Affirms Class-Action for Crawfish Farmers

The Louisiana Supreme Court has upheld a class-action certification ruling that allows crawfish farmers, who claim their crops were damaged by a pesticide, to proceed with their lawsuit against Aventis, the maker of the pesticide, reports the American Press. "Crawfish farmers allege ICON (Fipronil) devastated the state's 2000 and 2001 crawfish crop after it was introduced on rice seed in 1999 to kill water weevils, a rice pest."

Posted by AJR at February 14, 2003 08:20 AM