{"id":3452,"date":"2026-07-06T04:26:32","date_gmt":"2026-07-06T08:26:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vr-news.net\/?p=3452"},"modified":"2026-07-06T04:26:32","modified_gmt":"2026-07-06T08:26:32","slug":"supreme-court-gives-pesticide-corporations-immunity-from-cancer-lawsuits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vr-news.net\/?p=3452","title":{"rendered":"Supreme Court Gives Pesticide Corporations Immunity from Cancer Lawsuits"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Today, the U.S. Supreme Court sided with pesticide manufacturer Bayer in Monsanto Company v. Durnell<\/em>, ruling that federal law preempts lawsuits brought by cancer patients who allege its Roundup product was to blame for their disease. The Trump administration sided with Bayer<\/a> in the litigation. The ruling extends this legal shield to all pesticide corporations, leaving patients harmed by these toxic agricultural chemicals without the recourse of litigation that has cost Bayer billions of dollars.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, Senator Cory Booker\u2019s introduced Pesticide Injury Accountability Act would restore the right to sue over pesticide harms.<\/p>\n

In response, Food & Water Watch Legal Director Tarah Heinzen<\/strong> issued the following statement:<\/p>\n

\u201cOnce again, the Supreme Court has sided with big business over people and the environment. Today\u2019s ruling is a disaster for public health \u2014 and it has Trump\u2019s name written all over it. If one needed any further proof that the president\u2019s feigned mission to \u2018Make America Healthy Again\u2019 was a farce, today\u2019s decision is all the evidence needed. Trump has been all too willing to endorse Bayer\u2019s crusade to pollute with impunity, while the administration doubles down on a failed pesticide regulatory scheme.<\/p>\n

\u201cIndustrial agriculture is poisoning America. The fight against toxic pesticides does not end here. Congress must pass the Pesticide Injury Accountability Act to safeguard access to justice for all harmed by these toxic chemicals, and a Farm Bill that finally puts public health first. Until then, the Supreme Court has shut the courthouse doors to tens of thousands of sick and suffering Americans.\u201d<\/p>\n

Today\u2019s ruling comes despite a litany of evidence suggesting that glyphosate, the key ingredient in Bayer\u2019s ubiquitous Roundup pesticide, is carcinogenic, and that the Environmental Protection Agency\u2019s pesticide registration process is fatally flawed. The World Health Organization has defined glyphosate as a probable carcinogen<\/a> since 2015. Roundup is the most widely used pesticide in the United States.<\/p>\n

The decision completes Bayer\u2019s yearslong, well-financed<\/a> quest to stifle cancer lawsuits cutting into its bottom line. Since purchasing Monsanto in 2018, Bayer has spent over $11 billion settling over 100,000 cancer lawsuits related to Roundup. Bayer has been pushing widely-opposed Cancer Gag Act bills nationwide, seeking to shield pesticide corporations from health-related lawsuits in multiple states and Congress. So far this year, the immunity legislation has failed in 11 states and was stripped from the House Farm Bill and left out of the Senate version.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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