The Supreme Court could soon decide whether to hear a legal battle that has the potential to upend a victory by a California landowner against Monsanto.
Court upholds $25.2 million in damages in Roundup herbicide cancer case
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Containers of Roundup on a store shelf in San Francisco.Haven Daley/Associated PressShow MoreShow Less
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Edwin Hardeman is joined his attorneys Jennifer Moore, left, and Aimee Wagstaff, as they discuss the jury’s decision against Monsanto in Hardeman’s lawsuit in 2019.Carlos Avila Gonzalez/The ChronicleShow MoreShow Less
A federal appeals court upheld $25.2 million in damages Friday for a Bay Area man who contracted cancer after spraying Monsanto’s Roundup herbicide on his property for more than 26 years, the first federal court trial among thousands of lawsuits against the maker of the world’s most widely used weed killer.
Bayer-owned Monsanto must now decide whether it wants the Supreme Court to weigh in on the legitimacy of a $25 million jury verdict.
Dewayne Johnson claims Monsanto has known for decades that Roundup is carcinogenic but didn’t disclose it for fear of disrupting its multi-billion dollar global business.
SAN FRANCISCO (CN) A Ninth Circuit panel upheld a federal jury verdict finding the popular weed killer Roundup caused a Bay Area man’s lymphoma, rejecting manufacturer Monsanto’s argument that federal law prevented it from including a warning on its product label.
In 2019, a six-person jury awarded Edwin Hardeman $75 million in punitive damages and $5 million in compensatory damages for past and future pain and suffering, finding years of Roundup use likely caused his non-Hodgkin lymphoma.
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BELLEVILLE A former crop duster is suing Chevron and others alleging his exposure to the herbicide paraquat led to his Parkinson s disease.
Michael Kearns and Jean Kearns filed a complaint Dec. 21 in the St. Clair County Circuit Court against Syngenta Crop Protection LLC, Syngenta AG, Chevron Phillips Chemical Company LP, Chevron U.S.A., Inc., and Growmark Inc., alleging strict product liability, negligence, violation of the Illinois Consumer Fraud and Deceptive Business Practices Act, breach of implied warranty of merchantability and other claims.
The Kearns allege in their compliant that between 1969 and 1981 Michael Kearns worked as crop duster and was repeatedly exposed to the chemical paraquat. The plaintiffs allege Michael Kearns inhaled, ingested or absorbed paraquat that was sprayed on farm fields in the areas of Edgerton, Wisconsin and Danville, Ill.
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