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The US Supreme Court denied certiorari Monday to pharmaceutical giant Bayer and agrochemical subsidiary Monsanto for the second time this year. Bayer has been seeking certiorari for one of many cases surrounding Roundup, a weed killer produced by Monsanto with alleged cancer-causing properties. The case in question, Pilliods v. Monsanto, revolves around a California couple [...]

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The City of Los Angeles Monday announced that it filed a lawsuit against the Monsanto Company and two other related companies who are potentially liable for the continued production of a toxic chemical used in paints. The public nuisance lawsuit alleges that Monsanto knew the industrial chemical they manufactured, polychlorinated biphenyl (“PCB”), was highly toxic [...]

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A US judge on Wednesday declined to grant preliminary approval for a settlement against Bayer over claims that their Roundup weedkiller causes cancer. Research first published by a cancer-focused working group formed by the World Health Organization (WHO) in 2015 claimed that glyophosate was “probably carcinogenic to humans.” Although conflicting studies have since been released, including [...]

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The US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit upheld a $25 million judgment and jury verdict Friday finding that a California man, Edwin Hardeman, developed cancer from exposure to agribusiness Monsanto’s weed-killer, Bayer’s Roundup. Hardeman alleged that he developed non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma as a result of the use of Roundup over decades. In 2019, the [...]

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The California Court of Appeal, First Appellate District on Monday reduced the damages that life sciences company Bayer has to pay to a school groundskeeper who developed cancer from being exposed to Roundup. The court upheld the trial court’s finding that Monsanto failed to adequately warn of its products’ potential dangers and that the products [...]

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Life sciences company Bayer announced a series of agreements Wednesday to resolve outstanding litigation, including a total payment of $10.1 billion to $10.9 billion to resolve current and address potential future Roundup litigation. Bayer bought Monsanto, the company that owned the herbicide Roundup, in 2018. In 2018 Monsanto lost a lawsuit in which the plaintiff claimed [...]

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A California judge on Thursday reduced a $2 billion jury verdict for a couple against Bayer AG for causing their cancer by the company’s glyphosate-based weed killer, Roundup, to $86.7 million. Alva and Alberta Pilliod allege Roundup causes non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma and that Monsanto (now Bayer) for decades tried to influence scientists and regulators to bury [...]

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