The California Supreme Court declined to hear an appeal by Bayer AG seeking to reverse a jury verdict that the company’s Roundup herbicide caused a groundskeeper’s cancer, leaving the company with few remaining options to avoid paying a $20.4 million judgment. The German drug and agriculture conglomerate had challenged a 2018 verdict in California state court that found the company’s Roundup products posed a danger to users like plaintiff Dewayne “Lee” Johnson, and that the company failed to warn consumers of potential health...

Source: Wall Street Journal October 22, 2020 17:48 UTC