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California jury orders Monsanto to pay school groundskeeper $289 million in Roundup weed-killer court trial
Tina Bellon,
Reuters
Aug. 10, 2018, 7:20 PM
A California jury on Friday found Monsanto liable in a lawsuit filed by a man who alleged the company's glyphosate-based weed-killers, including Roundup, caused his cancer and ordered the company to pay $289 million in damages.
- The case of school groundskeeper Dewayne Johnson was the first lawsuit to go to trial alleging glyphosate causes cancer.
- Monsanto, a unit of Bayer AG following a $62.5 billion acquisition by the German conglomerate, faces more than 5,000 similar lawsuits across the United States.
- The jury awarded $39 million in compensatory and $250 million in punitive damages.