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TexasTowelie

(112,210 posts) Wed Oct 10, 2018, 03:37 AM Oct 2018

Jury's $289M award in Roundup cancer suit heads to court

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A San Francisco jury's $289 million verdict in favor of a school groundskeeper who says Roundup weed killer caused his cancer will face its first court test.

Agribusiness giant Monsanto will argue at a hearing on Wednesday that Judge Suzanne Bolanos should throw out the verdict in favor of DeWayne Johnson. Attorneys for the company say Johnson failed to prove that Roundup or similar herbicides caused his lymphoma, and presented no evidence that Monsanto executives were malicious in marketing Roundup. Bolanos was not expected to rule immediately.

Johnson's attorneys responded in court documents that the jury was attentive and well-educated and reached a reasonable verdict.

The jury in August awarded Johnson $39 million in compensatory damages and $250 million in punitive damages.

https://www.news-journal.com/ap/state/jury-s-m-award-in-roundup-cancer-suit-heads-to/article_1d778a5c-f540-50d0-8949-c86c18363749.html
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Jury's $289M award in Roundup cancer suit heads to court (Original Post) TexasTowelie Oct 2018 OP

Prediction: Winds Up In Brett's Court ResistantAmerican17 Oct 2018 #1

My sense is that the science has not yet succeeded in proving the danger of RoundUp when applied Nitram Oct 2018 #2

ResistantAmerican17

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1. Prediction: Winds Up In Brett's Court

Reply to TexasTowelie (Original post)

Wed Oct 10, 2018, 05:29 AM

Oct 2018

Where it gets reduced to a dollar two ninety eight because “business is business baby and business is always right. Let’s have a beer.”

Nitram

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2. My sense is that the science has not yet succeeded in proving the danger of RoundUp when applied

Reply to ResistantAmerican17 (Reply #1)

Wed Oct 10, 2018, 10:50 AM

Oct 2018

as instructed. Think about it. RoundUp (glyphopsate) has been in use since 1974, and there has been no spike in cancer cases. Shouldn't there be millions more cases of cancer of glyphosate is highly carcinogenic?

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