(September 18, 2024, 1:44 PM EDT) -- BURLINGTON, Vt. — In a text-only order entered as a note on the docket, a Vermont federal judge on Sept. 18 granted Monsanto Co.’s motion for a protocol governing electronically stored information (ESI), but denied the company’s requests for a protective order and nixed Monsanto’s bid for an agreement that would have established a procedure for logging protected information produced inadvertently during the litigation brought by 95 school districts against Monsanto Co. related to contamination from polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs)....