Trump Official Urges Supreme Court to Take Bayer Roundup Appeal

The Trump administration urged the US Supreme Court to take up Bayer AG’s appeal targeting thousands of lawsuits blaming its top-selling Roundup weedkiller for causing cancer.

US Solicitor General D. John Sauer – the administration’s top courtroom lawyer – recommended Monday that the high court agree to hear Bayer’s challenge to a $1.25 million Missouri jury verdict over Roundup on the grounds some of the claims were preempted by federal law.

In June, the high court sought Sauer’s position on whether federal law governing approved pesticides supersedes state law when it comes to juries hearing claims the company failed ...