round-up, the supremes and corporate rulership all collide in this article;

By B.N. Frank

Bayer continues to get an “A” for effort in trying to avoid compensating cancer-stricken Roundup weedkiller users.  Fortunately, past and current efforts aren’t working.  Earlier this year, more sick American Roundup users filed lawsuits against the company.  Thanks to Cary Gillam for continuing to cover Bayer’s attempts to avoid more.

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Another legal blow to Bayer

U.S. Solicitor General tells U.S. Supreme Court it should deny review of Roundup trial loss

The U.S. Solicitor General on Tuesday dealt a blow to Monsanto owner Bayer AG, advising the U.S. Supreme Court that it should deny the company’s request for a review of a key Roundup cancer trial loss.

Bayer has seen the Supreme Court as its last and best hope for putting a stop to the flood of lawsuits filed by tens of thousands of people claiming exposure to Roundup weed killing products caused them to develop non-Hodgkin lymphoma (NHL).

The brief from Solicitor General Elizabeth Prelogar states that “There is no sound reason for the Court to grant review…”

Bayer, which bought Monsanto in 2018, filed its petition to the high court in August, asking the court to review the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals’ decision that affirmed the district court’s judgment in Monsanto’s 2019 trial loss to plaintiff Edwin Hardeman. The jury in the case agreed with Hardeman’s attorneys that exposure to Monsanto’s glyphosate-based herbicide was a cause of Hardeman’s NHL and that Monsanto failed to warn of the risks despite decades of science showing links between the herbicide and cancer.........read and watch more........