GM corn gains heavyweight defense

"Defendants always want to say the plaintiff has novel claims, but in essence, these are garden variety public nuisance claims," said Brower, who represents a class of about 425,000 corn growers. "Peter has a narrow view of the world. I'm not sure his arguments will fall on very receptive ears in Iowa, southern Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, and the like, where these cases will be tried." Naomi Aoki can be reached at naoki@globe.com.