9th Circ. Won't Wipe Out $25M Roundup Verdict
ADVERTISEMENT 9th Circ. Won't 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 company's 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 Hardeman's California state failure-to-warn claims are not preempted by the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act because the laws' requiremen...