In an order on [March 5], U.S. District Judge Vince Chhabria vacated the March 23 trial date for the second federal bellwether trial over Roundup herbicide to give lawyers more time to negotiate a settlement of thousands of lawsuits.
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…. U.S. District Judge Vince Chhabria of the Northern District of California vacated the trial, which would have been the second in the multidistrict litigation alleging Roundup caused non-Hodgkin lymphoma.
A federal jury in the first bellwether trial [in 2019 awarded $80 million to a man who claimed he got the deadly cancer from exposure to Roundup, made by Monsanto, which is owned by Bayer AG.
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“The order will provide room for the parties to continue the mediation process in good faith …. and avoid the distractions that can arise from trials,” Bayer said in a statement ….”
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In a separate order on [March 5], Chhabria also halted all other deadlines in the multidistrict litigation by another 35 days “at the request of the settlement master.”
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