The U.S. Supreme Court overturned a $1.25 million jury award granted to a Missouri man who claimed that Monsanto's Roundup herbicide caused his cancer, according to CNN.
In a 7-2 ruling, the court held that the lawsuit should have been barred because federal regulators do not require Roundup to carry a cancer warning label.
The decision reversed a verdict awarded to John Durnell, who developed non-Hodgkin lymphoma after years of using Roundup.
The report said the ruling could influence more than 100,000 pending lawsuits against Monsanto, now owned by Bayer. Those cases gained momentum after a 2015 assessment by the International Agency for Research on Cancer classified glyphosate as "probably carcinogenic to humans."
According to CNN, the Trump administration backed Monsanto, arguing that allowing state-level warning requirements would create inconsistent regulations nationwide.
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The Supreme Court, in a 7-2 opinion (https://t.co/xnA4I3yQPV), has concluded that federal pesticide law expressly preempts the state law failure to warn claims commonly raised by plaintiffs who claim that exposure to the herbicide Roundup caused them to develop cancer. The… pic.twitter.com/KJb42qp9Xf
— National Agricultural Law Center (@nataglaw) June 25, 2026
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