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Bayer Asks High Court to Take $1.25 Million Roundup Appeal
Most of the lawsuits claim that Monsanto either knew or should have known that Roundup can cause cancer and didn’t warn users.
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Bayer AG said it’s seeking a US Supreme Court review of litigation over the weedkiller Roundup, its latest effort to get beyond a mountain of legal woes.
The German conglomerate asked the high court Friday to take its appeal of a 2023 verdict from a St. Louis trial in which a jury ordered Bayer’s Monsanto unit to pay $1.25 million in compensatory damages to cancer sufferer John Durnell, according to a statement. No punitive damages were awarded in the case.