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BAYER SUBMITS PAPERS APPEALING CALIFORNIA JURY'S $289 MILLION RULING
Sep. 21, 2018
BrownfieldAgNews reports:
Bayer is appealing a California jury award of $289 million to a former school groundskeeper who claims Monsanto's Roundup caused his non-Hodgkin's Lymphoma.
Bayer attorneys filed documents this week saying Dewayne Johnson failed to prove that Roundup or similar herbicides cause cancer. They said the verdict was not supported by the evidence provided at the August trial.
The San Francisco jury determined Roundup does cause cancer and that Monsanto failed to include that health risk on the warning label.
Bayer asked the judge to set the verdict aside, reduce the award or set a new trial. A hearing for those motions is set for October 10th.
Johnson's suit was the first to go to trial of about 8,700 cases alleging Roundup causes cancer.
The court ruling came shortly after Bayer finalized its acquisition of Monsanto in August.
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