Supreme Court limits Roundup warning lawsuits against Bayer (opens in new tab)

The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday ruled 7-2 for Bayer-owned Monsanto in Monsanto Co. v. Durnell, limiting state-court lawsuits alleging Roundup should have carried a cancer warning label. Justice Brett Kavanaugh wrote that the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act preempts John Durnell’s state-law failure-to-warn claim because it would require Monsanto to add a cancer warning the Environmental Protection Agency has not required. The ruling overturned a Missouri jury award of $1...