US Supreme Court scales back Roundup cancer lawsuits in victory for company
Key takeaways
- More than 100,000 plaintiffs had filed cases in US state and federal courts alleging a cancer link to the weedkiller Roundup.
- The decision is a victory for US President Donald Trump’s administration, but one that could be tricky politically since allies in the “Make America Healthy Again” movement want to rein in pesticide use.
- The high court, in a 7-2 ruling, found that the company cannot face failure-to-warn lawsuits in state courts because federal regulations have found a cancer link unlikely and do not require a warning label.
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More than 100,000 plaintiffs had filed cases in US state and federal courts alleging a cancer link to the weedkiller Roundup.
xwhatsapp-strokecopylinkgoogle Add Al Jazeera on Googleinfo Shares of Bayer, the German company that owns Roundup, jumped nearly 18 percent after the US Supreme court verdict [File: Haven Daley/AP Photo]By AP and Reuters Published On 25 Jun 202625 Jun 2026The United States Supreme Court has sided with the maker of Roundup weedkiller in a ruling expected to block thousands of lawsuits alleging it failed to warn people the product could cause cancer.
The ruling on Thursday was tied to a case that came before the justices after a tidal wave of litigation that included some multibillion-dollar verdicts against the global agrochemical manufacturer Bayer, a Germany-based company that acquired Roundup when it bought its original producer Monsanto in 2018.