"Bayer’s proposed $7.25 billion class action settlement is a “sweetheart deal” that violates the US Constitution by running “roughshod over basic due process rights, according to a court filing that seeks to undo the nationwide program.
The objections, filed Thursday in Missouri’s Circuit Court of the City of St. Louis, come in response to the settlement proposed by Bayer and a group of plaintiffs’ attorneys in February. That filing was followed by a “notice of removal” on Friday that seeks to shift the case to federal court, where its future could be in jeopardy.
Bayer is hoping that the settlement deal will resolve tens of thousands of lawsuits brought by people suffering from cancer they blame on exposure to glyphosate herbicides, such as Roundup. But it has drawn criticism from several legal observers since it was announced and hastily granted preliminary approval by a Missouri judge."
