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Bayer Loses Second Roundup Appeal, A Blow to Curbing Suits
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(Bloomberg) Bayer AG lost its second appeal of the three jury verdicts finding that the companyâs Roundup weed killer causes cancer.The U.S. Court of Appeals in San Francisco refused on Friday to overturn the 2019 decision in the only case to go to trial in federal court. The decision may embolden consumers to bring more claims beyond the many thousands the company is trying to resolve in an $11 billion settlement.
(Bloomberg) Bayer AG lost its second appeal of the three jury verdicts finding that the companyâs Roundup weed killer causes cancer.
A San Francisco appeals court on Friday rejected Bayer AG’s second appeal of a series of jury verdicts finding its Roundup weed killer is a carcinogen.
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BY THE SUMMER OF 2017, the plaintiffs’ attorneys had completed several depositions of Monsanto executives and felt they were nearly ready to go to trial. There was so far no smoking gun no internal memo indisputably tying the company’s products to cancer. But the legal team had what they saw as strong evidence that the company had long been aware of concerns about the potential cancer risks of the Roundup formulations that combined glyphosate with certain surfactants.
Vince Chhabria | cand.uscourts.gov
SAN FRANCISCO (Legal Newsline) - Plaintiff lawyers leading multidistrict litigation against Bayer AG over its Roundup herbicide are scheduled to face off against dissident lawyers in federal court in California tomorrow as a judge hears arguments for and against an 8.5% “common benefit” fee that opponents call an $800 million “money grab.”
The fees would come off the top of the nearly $11 billion Bayer has offered to settle thousands of lawsuits claiming Roundup causes non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma, a common cancer of the lymphatic system. Both Bayer and regulators in the U.S. and most other countries consider Roundup and its main ingredient, glyphosate, to be safe, but plaintiff lawyers in the U.S. have won several large court victories based on testimony of their own experts who maintain glyphosate causes cancer.