US EditionUS Supreme Court to Hear Bayer's Bid to Curb Roundup Cases
The Supreme Court will review if federal pesticide law blocks state cancer warnings on Roundup, affecting over 100,000 lawsuits Bayer faces, with a decision expected by June 2026.
- 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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Supreme Court to Take Roundup Case
The Supreme Court agreed Friday to hear an appeal from global agrochemical manufacturer Bayer to block thousands of state lawsuits alleging it failed to warn people that its popular weedkiller could cause cancer. The justices will consider whether the Environmental Protection Agency's approval of the Roundup weedkiller without a cancer...
The German agrochemical giant had been sentenced in October 2023 to compensation of $1.25 million for a man who had developed a form of cancer attributed to his exposure to controversial herbicide.
Supreme Court will hear appeal by maker of Roundup weedkiller to block thousands of lawsuits
The Supreme Court agreed on Friday to hear an appeal from global agrochemical manufacturer Bayer to block thousands of state lawsuits alleging it failed to warn people that its popular weedkiller could cause cancer.
Bayer gets boost as US Supreme Court says it will hear Roundup case
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…
The U.S. Supreme Court agrees to consider Bayer's appeal on the admissibility of complaints regarding the cancer risks associated with Roundup herbicide manufactured by its subsidiary Monsanto La
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