Lawyers for the Trump administration have urged the U.S. Supreme Court to intervene in a case that found the maker of weedkiller Roundup liable for not warning it can cause cancer.
A jury found in favor of John Durnell, a Missouri man who developed non-Hodgkin lymphoma after exposure to Roundup, which was developed by the Monsanto Company. The jury’s finding of liability was upheld by a state appeals court, and the Missouri Supreme Court declined to take up the matter.
Bayer, which purchased Monsanto in 2018, in April asked the U.S. Supreme Court to overturn the ruling, arguing that federal law governing the labeling of pesticides preempts any state requirements and that the court should take into account how the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has approved labeling Roundup without a cancer warning….