Supreme Court shields Bayer from Roundup warning lawsuits (opens in new tab)

The U.S. Supreme Court ruled 7-2 on June 25 that Bayer-owned Monsanto cannot be held liable under state failure-to-warn laws for not adding a cancer warning to Roundup labels, because federal pesticide law and EPA-approved labeling preempt those claims. Justice Brett Kavanaugh wrote the majority opinion in Monsanto Co. v. Durnell; Justices Ketanji Brown Jackson and Neil Gorsuch dissented. The ruling overturned a $1.25 million Missouri jury award to John Durnell, who said he developed non-Hodg...