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Johnson v. Monsanto Co.
2018 court case in California, United States
Johnson v. Monsanto Co.
Johnson v. Monsanto Co. was the first lawsuit to proceed to trial over Monsanto's Roundup herbicide products causing cancer. The lawsuit alleged that Roundup products caused Dewayne "Lee" Johnson's non-Hodgkin lymphoma and that Monsanto failed to warn consumers that Roundup products were potentially carcinogenic. In a landmark verdict, Monsanto's purchaser Bayer Corporation was ordered by a San Francisco jury to pay $289m in punitive damages and compensatory damages. Monsanto, and after June 2018 Bayer, appealed the verdict several times. The award was cut to $78 million, then reduced to $21 million after appeal.
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