Bayer appeals $20.5 million Roundup ruling to California Supreme Court

[Eugene]

Source: Reuters

BUSINESS NEWS SEPTEMBER 1, 2020 / 11:53 AM / UPDATED 3 HOURS AGO

Bayer appeals $20.5 million Roundup ruling to California Supreme Court

Tom Hals
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(Reuters) - Bayer AG has asked California’s Supreme Court to review a decision awarding $20.5 million to a groundskeeper who claimed the company’s Roundup weedkiller caused his cancer, arguing the ruling was at odds with federal law and settled legal principles.

Bayer, which acquired Roundup with its purchase of Monsanto for $63 billion in 2018, said the July decision by the California Court of Appeal affirming a 2018 jury verdict in favor of Dewayne Johnson would be relied upon by other courts handling cases over the widely used herbicide.

A San Francisco jury initially awarded Johnson $289.2 million after finding the chemical glyphosate in Roundup caused his non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma.

The trial judge reduced that amount to $78.5 million and the Court of Appeal reduced that to $20.5 million.

“In this case, the Court of Appeal affirmed a verdict that severely punishes Monsanto for complying with federal law,” said the petition by the company, which has long said regulators have deemed glyphosate safe for use by humans.

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Read more: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-bayer-glyphosate-lawsuit/bayer-appeals-20-5-million-roundup-ruling-to-california-supreme-court-idUSKBN25S5JY

[abqtommy]

1. Roundup is Agent Orange for the common folk. I've used Roundup but was always careful with it

since I know that the indiscriminate use of Agent Orange by the U.S. military in Vietnam has resulted
in deaths and birth defects in that country that persist to this day. I hope that Monsanto/Bayer is
bankrupted due to this. It's the least they deserve.

For only one more case of corporate malfeasance see:

Bhopal disaster(...)

The Bhopal disaster, also referred to as the Bhopal gas tragedy, was a gas leak incident on the night of 2–3 December 1984 at the Union Carbide India Limited (UCIL) pesticide plant in Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, India. It is considered among the world's worst industrial disasters.[1][2] Over 500,000 people were exposed to methyl isocyanate (MIC) gas. The highly toxic substance made its way into and around the small towns located near the plant.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bhopal_disaster#Union_Carbide_Corporation

U.S. courts decided Union Carbide was not responsible for this tragedy.

https://duckduckgo.com/?t=ffnt&q=was+union+carbide+ever+held+to+account+for+the+bhopal+tragedy&ia=web

I consider these events to be precedents for tRUMP's decision to abdicate responsibility for his
treatment of the Covoid-19 disaster he's been happy to inflict on the U.S./world population.

[appalachiablue]

2. K/R