St. Louis Jury Rules for Bayer in Roundup Cancer Trial on Oct. 29, First Case Tried After Supreme Court Ruling
Bayer won a Roundup weedkiller lawsuit in St. Louis on Oct. 29, as a jury unanimously ruled for Bayer's Monsanto unit and rejected three women's claims that the herbicide caused their cancer, Reuters reported. It was the first Roundup case to go to trial since the U.S. Supreme Court's June ruling in Bayer's favor, which effectively limited claims based on failure to warn about cancer risks on the label.
Plaintiffs Theresa Aretino, Cynthia Fernandez and Betty Larkin sued Monsanto in St. Louis in 2020, saying long-term Roundup use gave them non-Hodgkin lymphoma; none of the three joined Bayer's proposed settlement, and Fernandez died before trial. Bayer faces about 65,000 similar claims in state and federal courts, while pursuing a $7.25 billion settlement covering tens of thousands of other cases, now under review by a Missouri state court judge in St. Louis.
Bayer U.S. general counsel Bill Dodero said the verdict shows that after the Supreme Court ruling, it will be harder for other plaintiffs to win.
Source: GSM · USA (original Chinese edition)
Photo: 圣路易斯市民事法院大楼 / Civil Courts Building, St. Louis. Photo: J. Crocker, CC BY, via Wikimedia Commons
