Bayer won a jury verdict over Roundup on [June 9], the third defense win in a row over Monsanto’s pesticide. A jury in Jackson County Circuit Court in Kansas City, Missouri, found that Monsanto was not liable for Allan Shelton’s non-Hodgkin lymphoma.
Shelton, of Kansas City, Missouri, alleged he was diagnosed with cancer in his 20s after spraying Roundup at his home.
[Bayer, which acquired Monsanto in 2018] won Roundup verdicts last year in California: one on Oct. 5 in Los Angeles County Superior Court, and another on Dec. 9 in San Bernardino County Superior Court.“The jury’s verdict in favor of the company brings this trial to a successful conclusion and is consistent with the evidence in this case that Roundup does not cause cancer and was not the cause of Mr. Shelton’s cancer,” Bayer said in a statement. “These conclusions are consistent with the assessments of expert regulators worldwide as well as the overwhelming evidence from four decades of scientific studies concluding that Roundup can be used safely and is not carcinogenic.”
In 2018 and 2019, juries in San Francisco County Superior Court and Alameda County Superior Court, as well as U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, awarded a total of nearly $2.4 billion in verdicts to Roundup plaintiffs.
[More Roundup trials are planned this year, including one in Missouri involving four plaintiffs that begins jury selection on Sept. 28.]…
Bayer… has petitioned the U.S. Supreme Court to overturn one of the verdicts, for $80 million, arguing that federal law preempts the plaintiff’s claims. [If successful, all verdicts against Bayer could eventually be overturned.]
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