Civil Litigation
Aug. 13, 2018
Jury awards $289.2 million to dying plaintiff in first Monsanto trial
A superior court jury on Friday awarded nearly $300 million to a dying man in the first, precedent-setting trial to allege that Monsanto Co.’s massively popular weedkillers cause cancer.
SAN FRANCISCO -- A superior court jury on Friday awarded nearly $300 million to a dying man in the first, precedent-setting trial to allege that Monsanto Co.'s massively popular weedkillers cause cancer.
The San Francisco County Superior Court jury returned unanimous or near unanimous votes in favor of plaintiff Dewayne Johnson on every count.
The trial is the first of more than 4,000 cases nationw...
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