Posts Tagged ‘Roundup’
BREAKING NEWS: California Jury Awards Couple More Than $2 Billion in Roundup Lawsuit
California Jury Awards Couple More Than $2 Billion in Roundup Lawsuit A California jury delivered another strong rebuke to the manufacturer of Roundup weed killer when it awarded a couple $2 billion for punitive damages sustained after using the weed killer for years. The jury also awarded the couple $55 million in compensatory damages. This…
Read MoreBREAKING NEWS: Jury Awards Plaintiff $289.2 Million in Roundup Lawsuit
According to numerous news outlets, including CNN and USA Today, a jury in San Francisco awarded a man $289 million in his Roundup lawsuit. This lawsuit is the first case to go before a jury out of the hundreds of cases filed against Monsanto, the maker of the agricultural weed killer. Punishing Monsanto for Wrongdoing…
Read MoreEU Goes Against Grain And Approves Roundup
In a move that highlights the inherent difficulties in proving dangerous product cases, the European Union said it would consider extending Roundup’s license. A newly-issued study from the European Chemical Agency apparently convinced the agency that Roundup was safe, despite a volume of evidence that glyphosate, which is the weed killer’s active ingredient, causes several forms of…
Read MoreCalifornia Restricts Roundup Sales
Now, retailers in the Golden State cannot sell Monsanto’s popular weed killer without warning future buyers that this potentially dangerous product may cause cancer. In January 2017, Superior Court Judge Kristi Culver Kapetan heard arguments from both sides regarding glyphosate, an odorless and colorless substance that is Roundup’s main ingredient. The prestigious International Agency for Research on Cancer recently…
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