Civil Litigation,
California Supreme Court
Nov. 19, 2021
State Supreme Court denies review of $86.7M Roundup verdict
The court's decision, reached Wednesday, affirms a 1st District Court of Appeal ruling in August.
The state Supreme Court denied review of an $86.7 million verdict in favor of a Livermore couple in their lawsuit against Bayer AG-owned Monsanto because they got non-Hodgkin's lymphoma after using the weed killer Roundup.
The court's decision, reached Wednesday, affirms a 1st District Court of Appeal ruling in August. Pilliod et al. v Monsanto Company, S270957 (Cal. S. Ct., filed Sept. 20, 2021).
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Pilliod v. Monsanto Co.
Failure to warn and design defect claims based on state-law labeling and packaging requirements were not expressly preempted by Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act.