Supreme Court may block thousands of lawsuits over Monsanto's weed killer [Los Angeles Times (CA)]
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Environmentalists said the court should not step in to shield makers of dangerous products. WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court announced Friday it will hear Monsanto's claim that it should be shielded from tens of thousands of lawsuits over its weed killer Roundup because the Environmental Protection Agency has not required a warning label that it may cause cancer. The justices will not resolve the decades-long dispute over whether Roundup's key ingredient glyphosate causes cancer. Some studies have found it is a likely carcinogen, and others concluded it does not pose a true cancer risk for humans. However, the court may free Monsanto and Bayer, its parent company, from legal claims from more than 100,000 plaintiffs who sued over their cancer diagnosis. The legal dispute involves whether the federal regulatory laws shield the company from being sued under state law for failing to warn consumers. In product liability suits, plaintiffs typically seek to hold product makers res
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