Battle Over $7.25 Billion Roundup Settlement Takes A New Turn [1]
"A federal judge has rejected efforts to slow the progress of a $7.25 billion class action settlement in the nationwide Roundup cancer litigation, notching a win for Roundup maker Bayer but frustrating a group of plaintiffs’ attorneys who claim the deal is unfair to cancer patients.
The order handed down Wednesday from the US District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri, sends the settlement back to the Circuit Court for the City of St. Louis, where it had been progressing quickly toward final approval before being abruptly removed from St. Louis to the federal court by the objecting attorneys last month.
US District Judge Edward Autrey said the case was improperly moved to federal court and thus must be sent back to St. Louis.
The order support efforts by Bayer, the German owner of the former Monsanto Co., to settle tens of thousands of lawsuits brought by people who claim they developed non-Hodgkin lymphoma (NHL) from exposure to Monsanto’s Roundup and other glyphosate herbicides. Bayer has been mired in costly litigation since buying Monsanto in 2018, and has paid out billions of dollars in settlements and jury awards."