Bayer drew supportive comments from Justice Brett Kavanaugh, who questioned whether lawsuits alleging a failure to warn could be squared with a provision in federal law requiring “uniformity” in herbicide labels. But Chief Justice John Roberts suggested that states considering new evidence that a product is risky should be allowed to “call this danger to the attention of the people".
(April 28): The US Supreme Court gave Bayer AG a mixed reception on its bid to stop tens of thousands of lawsuits claiming its Roundup herbicide should have been labelled as a cancer risk.
Hearing arguments in Washington Monday, the justices weighed a US$1.25 million (RM4.94 million) jury verdict won by a Missouri man who blamed Roundup for his non-Hodgkin lymphoma. The company contends that since US regulators did not require a cancer warning, federal law bars the Missouri suit and others like it.
