Supreme Court justices are set today to consider pharmaceutical and biotech giant Bayer’s effort to have dismissed thousands of lawsuits which accuse the company of failing to warn users that the active ingredient in its ?Roundup weedkiller causes cancer. The court is due to hear arguments in Bayer’s appeal of a jury verdict in Missouri state court which awarded $1.25m ?to John Durnell, who said he was diagnosed with non-Hodgkin lymphoma after years of exposure to glyphosate in Roundup. Bayer argues that a federal law governing pesticides should prevent failure-to-warn claims, such as Durnell’s, that are brought under state law from moving forward in court.
