A former school groundskeeper says he won’t contest a California judge’s decision to reduce a jury’s punitive damages award to $39.3 million in a lawsuit in which he claimed exposure to Monsanto’s Roundup caused his terminal cancer.
A jury in San Francisco Superior Court ruled in favor of the groundskeeper, Dewayne Lee Johnson, in August. He claimed his use of Monsanto’s weedkiller caused his non-Hodgkins lymphoma. He was awarded $250 million in punitive damages plus $39.3 million in compensatory damages. Monsanto was acquired by Bayer AG earlier this year.
Bayer failed to persuade Superior Court Judge Suzanne Ramos Bolanos to ...
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