Civil Litigation
Jul. 21, 2020
Appeal court cuts jury award against Monsanto by nearly three-fourths
The award was cut from $78.5 million to $20.4 million, while the 1st District Court of Appeal otherwise upheld the judgment. The trial judge earlier cut the award down from $289 million.
An appellate court on Monday cut nearly three-fourths of the multi-million-dollar award against Bayer AG stemming from the first jury trial linking Monsanto's Roundup weedkiller to cancer but found a key defense to be unpersuasive.
The suit was brought by Dewayne L. Johnson, a school groundskeeper who said he was a heavy user of the company's herbicides. He sued Monsanto, now owned by Bayer, after contracting non-Hodgkin's lymphoma...
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