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.
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A Black woman and her daughter filed a lawsuit against an Uber driver and the ridesharing company this week after they said the driver repeatedly referred to them as “n rs.”
Mother’s Day weekend, South Carolina resident Jovene Milligan and her 30-year-old daughter Ghiana Gardner took a 59-mile trip in an Uber they described as a horrid experience that left them fearing for their safety, The State reports.
The mother and daughter duo were heading to Charleston from Atlanta for the weekend when their car broke down in Aiken, South Carolina. After contacting AAA, they were told they couldn’t ride in the tow truck due to COVID-19 safety protocols, forcing them to call an Uber.
The Salvation Army is being sued over its controversial rehabilitation program.
According to CBS 5, a lawsuit filed in San Francisco Superior Court last Friday argues the charitable organization should properly compensate those who were accepted into its six-month residential program. The Salvation Army website states its drug and alcohol treatment programs provide recovering addicts “housing, food, counseling, community, and employment as we work to treat the symptoms, and ultimately the root causes, of prolonged alcohol and drug dependence.” However, the plaintiffs suggest the “work therapy” element is exploitative, as some participants work full time for the organization and get paid as little as $12 a week.
Larkin Street Youth Services, which receives millions of dollars in public funding, is the defendant in three recent civil complaints — including in a lawsuit that alleges an employee coerced three women who worked there into having sex.