A San Francisco jury finds Roundup caused a man’s cancer just as it was about to enter its second week of deliberations. In the second Roundup cancer trial to be heard in a courtroom, final arguments in Edwin Hardeman’s case against the manufacturer (Monsanto was purchased by Bayer for $63 billion) were delivered last week and the jury had been deliberating since. As those closely watching ...
Roundup Cancer Trial Jury Finds Glyphosate Responsible for Man’s Cancer
Posted March 28, 2019 in Product News and Recalls | roundup
Long Road Ahead in Monsanto Cancer Case
Posted November 9, 2018 in Product News and Recalls
Earlier this month, San Francisco Superior Court Judge Suzanne Bolanos could not have been more explicit in her intentions. Citing a failure to provide “clear and convincing evidence of malice or oppression,” Judge Bolanos took aim at the $250 million punitive judgement levied by a jury on Monsanto for their role in causing a California school groundskeeper, husband, and father of two to develop ...
Judge Signals New Trial in Monsanto Cancer Case
Posted October 24, 2018 in Product News and Recalls | roundup
Citing a failure to provide “clear and convincing evidence of malice or oppression,” San Francisco Superior Court Judge Suzanne Bolanos issued a tentative ruling earlier this month ordering a new trial in Dewayne Johnson’s Roundup cancer lawsuit. Johnson, a school groundskeeper, won a $298 million judgement against the secretive agribusiness this summer when a jury found that his frequent exposure to Roundup caused him ...
Monsanto Roundup Lawsuit Leads to $289 Million Verdict
Posted August 31, 2018 in Product News and Recalls
The trial of a California school groundskeeper versus one of the largest, most secretive corporations in the world has resulted in a $289 million verdict in his favor. A California jury made the decision earlier this month and it could have drastic repercussions for future trials over the possible harms caused by Monsanto’s Roundup weed killer.
Dewayne Johnson’s case was unique in that it ...
continue reading...Monsanto Roundup Cancer Case Goes to Trial
Posted August 2, 2018 in Product News and Recalls
A California groundskeeper’s case alleging that frequent exposure to glyphosate in Monsanto’s Roundup weed killer caused him to develop non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma has gone to trial.
A San Francisco jury is currently hearing the case of Dewayne Johnson. As a groundskeeper with the San Francisco Bay Area school district, Johnson would frequently spray large amounts of the chemical-laden product on the grounds he tended to. He read Roundup’s warning ...
continue reading...Coffee Grower Sues Monsanto over Cancer Diagnosis
Posted April 3, 2018 in Product News and Recalls | roundup
A farmer notices weeds growing among her crop and needs to get them under control. She turns to the leading weed killer on the market, Roundup, and begins spraying it on the plants. The weeds die, and the problem is resolved.
She repeats this process for years. A new crop of plants – coffee beans in this case – and a new infestation of weeds. More Roundup. More ...
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