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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Lindsay Whitehurst

Supreme Court grapples with multibillion-dollar wave of lawsuits over Roundup cancer claims

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The Supreme Court seemed divided Monday over whether to block thousands of lawsuits alleging the maker of the weedkiller Roundup failed to warn people it could cause cancer.

The case came before the justices after a tidal wave of litigation that included some multibillion-dollar verdicts against the global agrochemical manufacturer Bayer, which owns Roundup maker Monsanto.

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