“A responsible company would test its product. A responsible company would tell their customers if they knew it causes cancer.” These are the words that Edwin Hardeman’s attorney used to send a San Francisco jury into back deliberations; this time to put a value on Hardeman’s life and his battle against non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma. Aimee Wagstaff, one of Hardeman’s attorneys in the trial, pushed the jury to come back ...
Latest Roundup Cancer Verdict to Cost Bayer $80 Million
Posted April 17, 2019 in Product News and Recalls | roundup
Roundup Cancer Trial Jury Finds Glyphosate Responsible for Man’s Cancer
Posted March 28, 2019 in Product News and Recalls | roundup
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 ...
Monsanto’s Activities Behind the Scenes Being Forced into Spotlight
Posted March 12, 2019 in Product News and Recalls | roundup
Until recently, a cornerstone of Monsanto’s defense of glyphosate; its cornerstone weed killer and the primary ingredient in Roundup, has been the volumes of “scientific” evidence which exist only to exalt the compound’s safety. Study after study, according to one of the world’s most secretive corporations, has proven that glyphosate is safe for humans and the use of the chemical poses no safety risks to America’s ...
Roundup Cancer Victim Pens Powerful Piece for Time Magazine
Posted December 31, 2018 in Product News and Recalls | roundup
Dewayne Anthony Lee Johnson, or Lee as he likes to go by, remembers the day of the accident like it happened yesterday. That was the day a sprayer broke that he was using to apply Roundup to the grounds of the California school grounds he maintained.
The Roundup – or the “juice” as Johnson called it – went everywhere; drenching both him and his clothes. It wasn’t ...
continue reading...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 ...
