The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday denied Bayer AG’s appeal to review a million-dollar lawsuit filed by a Californian resident, suing the company for developing cancer from over 20 years of using Roundup weedkiller.
The rejection potentially opens the German company up to billions of dollars in losses from future lawsuits.
The justices maintained the lower court decision (pdf) to award $25 million to Edwin Hardeman from Windsor, California, a Roundup user who blamed his cancer on the pharmaceutical and chemical giant’s glyphosate-based weedkillers.
The Biden administration in May recommended the court not hear the Bayer appeal, reversing the government’s position previously taken under former President Donald Trump….