Sure it MAY possible that he has an inside scoop to take them down also, but....that would be too good to be true... and you know what they say about that

How about acknowledging a fact like biotech seeds didn’t even exist when Thomas worked for Monsanto? How much bias can anyone have after three decades? Try some logical perspective for once.

Clarence Thomas wouldn't see the conflict- of judging in a case involving his former employer. The fool can't see the inappropriateness of his wife's involvement with the radical tea party.

Corporations that betray the trust of the public, break laws, pollute our planet, and have no moral compass are what you then support? If so, don't even think your spewing is worth anything in this conversation. I never stated corporations as a whole were a "curse word." Monsanto is hated for a VERY GOOD REASON...THEY KILL PEOPLE, and they are now KILLING THE BIODIVERSITY OF THIS PLANET. And those who support them in that endeavor for their own gain over the good of the whole, especially on the USSC are in abrogation of their duties as justices and as moral beings. So again, if you find that so hard to comprehend I would then question again who is the one who has been indoctrinated.

every one who disagrees with Obama is a racist so I applied the same logic in this case. What year did Judge Thomas work for monsanto ?When did corporation become a curse word in America?When did we become a communist country filled with class envy and blind hatred for anyone who achieves something outside the public sector.Where did you recieve your indoctrination?

two words; life tenure.

I don't look for the farmers to win this one. Severe corruption in the US Supreme Court has been proven with a few past, and one of the most recent judgments.
Too bad we can't vote these a** holes off the bench.

Being a 4.0 law student (grad of the Paralegal Institute, December 2003)
this issue is another dead skunk in the middle of the road stinking to high
heaven. Conflict of Interest is of extreme importance to bona fide lawyers
because they know they can be disbarred for breaching the ethic that
their client have competent and loyal representation. It's so extremely
important that they are explicitly mandated to recuse themselves if there
exists even the vaguest resemblance of conflict of interest. Thomas had
to side with Monsanto during the late 70s. Bingo. That's all it takes to have
a memory of his once having sided with Monsanto. No honest person with
character & integrity gives a rats ass if he's developed convenient memory
loss. The sleeze factor has already been established here. Someone should refresh Thomas memory of the ALA's canons of ethical professional responsibility. He had to have been a citizen of some State once where he
earned his Juris Doctor dergree, and passed the Bar exam & background
investigation. He knows full well if he were still a lawyer in private practice
he could be disbarred from pulling this stunt. It doesn't excuse him from
his ethical professional responsibility now that he's on the Federal payroll.
So unless he has Alzheimers, and has forgotten all his service to Monsanto
and the ALA's code of ethics, again someone should send him a memo.
Unless he constues that to be another high tech lynching. They're a joke.

Thanks for keeping an eye on this issue! More people need to know how blatant the corruption is in the ag-chem-bio businesses.

Great... next we should bring gay marriage and Roe vs. Wade in front of this conservative packed court. Maybe after that they can rule that Corporations deserve MORE rights then people.

sarcasm

Recusing himself would be going against what he is paid to do by the big shots that put him and Scalia on the bench in the first place. Both Scalia and Thomas had family members working for the Election Of George W. at the time of Bush v Gore and neither took themselves off the decision process. And somehow I am too believe we have any say in what the hell goes on anymore.

thanks for posting this, people need to know more about their so called "organic" food and the industry whos working to make sure we blindly accept their crap.

Oh , this just keeps getting better . Wait .

this is only a problem because hes Black racists

4 of the 5 conservative judges on the bench are criminals.

Lawrence Thomas is one of the worst criminals ever to sit on the bench of the SCOTUS. He is a national embarrassment.

Yes, and their recent corrupt decision to allow unfettered corporate access to the halls of Congress and political campaigns only solidifies their obvious bias. So taking that into account even though I try to have hope, I can't see Monsanto losing this. And in that case, our food system is done. They will control three of the four major crops in this country and they are still working on wheat, the fourth. The next step will then be to BOYCOTT them up the a** and for US to become the lobbyists in joining with farmers and working harder to get out the truth about this corrupt collusion and the abrogation of our fundamental freedom to grow the food we want, and to keep pressure on the USDA and the DOJ.

Scallia went Duck Hunting with Cheney and they spent the night drinking and chit chatting in a posh Louisiana camp and Scalia a few days later ruled in favor of Cheney. Duh? All those 5 judges, the red ones, are as corrupt as the day is long. Scalia made duck calls in public when people asked him about the obvious conflict of interest. He laughed at our system of law and at the common people caring about it.
Thomas should recuse himself. He is just as corrupt as Scalia.

what happened with Monsanto's patent on a specific species of pig?