US EditionUS Supreme Court to Hear Bayer's Bid to Curb Roundup Cases
Bayer faces about 181,000 lawsuits over Roundup's cancer risk as the Supreme Court reviews if EPA approval blocks state claims, amid conflicting lower court rulings.
- On Friday, the U.S. Supreme Court agreed to hear Bayer's appeal to block thousands of state lawsuits alleging Roundup caused cancer, focusing on whether EPA approval precludes state claims.
- Lower-Court splits—including a 2024 3rd U.S. Circuit decision in Bayer's favor—prompted Bayer, which acquired Monsanto in 2018, to stop using glyphosate in the U.S. residential lawn and garden market while it remains in agricultural products.
- Court dockets show large scale, with about 181,000 Roundup claims mostly from residential users, and a Missouri case involving a $1.25 million jury award for non-Hodgkin's lymphoma.
- The Trump administration's intervention noted, reversing the Biden administration's position, while Bayer warned it might pull glyphosate from U.S. agricultural markets if lawsuits persist.
- Scientific and regulatory views diverge, with some studies associating glyphosate with cancer while the Environmental Protection Agency says it is not likely carcinogenic, and Georgia and North Dakota have barred lawsuits.
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The US Supreme Court said on Friday that it will take up the issue of federal preemption over pesticide warning labels, a move sought by Bayer as a means of blocking costly future litigation over the Roundup weed killer products it inherited from its purchase of Monsanto. The high court said it will hear the case with the limitation of answering one question: “Whether the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act [FIFRA] preempts a lab…
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