Glyphosate: the Supreme Court halts the cases against Bayer
Seven out of nine votes in favour of granting immunity to German Big Pharma over the failure to provide warnings regarding the herbicide Roundup
The Supreme Court has ruled in favour of Bayer from lawsuits relating to cancer warnings concerning Roundup, the glyphosate-based herbicide. By a vote of seven to two – with Ketanji Brown Jackson and Neil Gorsuch dissenting – the justices ruled that consumers cannot sue Bayer for failing to include a cancer warning, as the federal regulatory authority had determined that such a warning was not necessary. Over the years, the Roundup lawsuits have cost Bayer more than 10 billion dollars.
Roundup was marketed by Monsanto, subsidiary of Bayer, which went into administration in 20218 precisely as a result of the lawsuits. In March this year, a judge in Missouri granted preliminary approval to the $7.25 billion class-action settlement proposed by Bayer to settle the Roundup-related lawsuits. The settlement aimed to resolve both ongoing litigation and any future claims for compensation.
