Sanctions for Attorney in Monsanto Roundup Case Reversed

An attorney in a multimillion-dollar case over allegations that Monsanto Co.‘s Roundup pesticide caused cancer was wrongly sanctioned for trial misconduct, the Ninth Circuit said Wednesday.

The suit was brought by Edwin Hardeman, who said years of exposure to Roundup caused his non-Hodgkin lymphoma. The U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California ordered Bayer’s Monsanto to pay over $25 million in damages last year, cutting a jury award of over $80 million.

The district court sanctioned Hardeman’s attorneys Aimee Wagstaff of Andrus Wagstaff PC and Jennifer Moore of Moore Law Group PLLC based on Wagstaff’s opening statement. ...