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ADVERTISEMENT 9th Circ. Wont Wipe Out $25M Roundup Verdict Law360 (May 14, 2021, 9:42 PM EDT) -- The Ninth Circuit dealt a setback to Monsanto on Friday when a panel upheld a $25 million judgment in the first bellwether trial in multidistrict litigation over claims that the companys Roundup weedkiller causes cancer, saying failure-to-warn claims are not blocked by federal law. The panel said in a unanimous published opinion that Edwin Hardemans California state failure-to-warn claims are not ...

By Syndicated Content By Tom Hals (Reuters) -A federal appeals court on Friday upheld a $25 million judgment and trial verdict finding Bayer’s Roundup caused a California resident’s non-Hodgkin lymphoma, dealing a blow to the chemical company’s hopes of limiting its legal risk over the weed-killer. The trial judge did not misapply the law when he allowed the lawsuit by Edwin Hardeman to go to trial, as Bayer has argued, according to a three-judge panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Cour...

Share this article Share this article SAN FRANCISCO, May 14, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- A federal appellate ruling upholding findings that Bayer AGs Monsanto Roundup weed killer caused a California mans non-Hodgkins lymphoma cancer deals a blow to efforts by Bayer AG to push through a flawed settlement of thousands of pending cancer lawsuits, trial lawyers with Dallas-based Fears Nachawati Law Firm said Friday. Fears Nachawati lawyers, who represent more than 4,000 cancer victims in litigation agains...

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 argume...

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SAN FRANCISCO — A federal appeals court on Friday upheld a $25-million verdict against the maker of Roundup, a weed killer that thousands of litigants blame for causing their cancers. The three-judge panel of the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals rejected an appeal by Monsanto Co., the manufacturer of the herbicide, ruling 2-1 that $20 million in punitive damages, “while close to the outer limits,” was constitutional. A jury in 2019 awarded cancer victim Edwin Hardeman $5.3 million in c...

by Colin Todhunter / April 30th, 2021 On 9 April 2021, retired physician and health and environmental campaigner Dr Rosemary Mason wrote to the Danish Environmental Protection Agency (DEPA). She wanted to draw the agency’s attention to the findings that indicate the glyphosate-based herbicide Roundup causes high levels of mortality following contact exposure in bumble bees (glyphosate-formulated herbicides are the most widely used weedicides in agriculture across the globe). This, Mason argue...

Bayer Accused of Paying Plaintiff to Appeal Roundup-based Lawsuit to 11th Circuit 6 hours ago Bayer allegedly paid John Carson, a plaintiff who alleged the herbicide Roundup caused his cancer, to appeal a lawsuit against its subsidiary, Monsanto, to the Eleventh Circuit, according to Thursday’s filing in the lawsuit by other plaintiffs with similar claims against Monsanto in separate lawsuits.  Reportedly, Bayer hoped that this appeal of the court’s dismissal of some of Carson’s claims w...

Bayer And Plaintiffs Try Again To Settle Roundup Weed Killer Litigation Bay City News Service FacebookTwitterEmail Bay City News Foundation Bayer AG has reached a settlement to resolve many current and anticipated future claims against its agrochemical subsidiary Monsanto Company arising from its Roundup weed killer, alleged to cause non-Hodgkin lymphoma (NHL). The settlement, announced Wednesday, was submitted to the U.S. District Court in San Francisco and is subject to approval of U.S. Distr...

The incident happened earlier today at eagle point, west of grand canyon national park in arizona. a tourist in his 50s from hong kong slipping from thousands of feet up while taking photos. the fall happening near the famed grand canyon skywalk. authorities do not believe he survived. next to the $80 million jury award going to a california man who says roundup weed killer caused his cancer. the san francisco jury found that the popular backyard herbicide contributed to edwin hardemans non-ho...