Roundup Lawsuits Blocked

The Supreme Court ruled 7-2 for Monsanto and its owner Bayer, finding that federal pesticide-labeling law bars state-law claims that Roundup should have carried a cancer warning. Justice Brett Kavanaugh wrote the majority opinion, while Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson dissented, joined by Justice Neil Gorsuch. The decision is expected to block or sharply limit thousands of lawsuits from people who allege Roundup’s key ingredient, glyphosate, caused cancer, including claims like Missouri plaintiff John Durnell’s. The ruling gives Bayer a major victory after years of costly litigation and large verdicts, and shifts pressure to Congress or federal regulators if warning-label rules are to change.