Supreme Court To Hear Oral Arguments In Critical Glyphosate Case, Activists Rally

The Supreme Court on Monday will hear oral arguments in Monsanto Company. v. Durnell, a case that could weaken the ability of consumers to sue companies failing to warn of cancer risks from glyphosate.

The issue is “whether the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act preempts a label-based failure-to-warn claim where EPA has not required the warning.”

John Durnell became one of tens of thousands of Americans to sue Monsanto, the maker of weedkiller Roundup, after he developed non-Hodgkin lymphoma.

Durnell used Roundup for over two decades near his St. Louis home.

In 2023, a jury agreed with Durnell that the weedkiller caused his diagnosis and said Monsanto owed him $1.25 million.

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