US Judge Rejects Bayer’s $2 Billion Deal to Resolve Future Roundup Lawsuits as ‘Unreasonable’

US Judge Rejects Bayer’s $2 Billion Deal to Resolve Future Roundup Lawsuits as ‘Unreasonable’
Roundup products are seen for sale at a hardware store in San Rafael, Calif., on July, 9, 2018. Josh Edelson/AFP/Getty Images
Reuters
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A U.S. judge rejected Bayer’s $2 billion class action proposal to resolve future lawsuits alleging its Roundup weedkiller causes cancer, saying in a Wednesday order that parts of the plan were “clearly unreasonable.”

U.S. District Court Judge Vince Chhabria in San Francisco said the proposal “would accomplish a lot for Monsanto,” which Bayer acquired for $63 billion in 2018, and “would accomplish far less for the Roundup users” who are currently healthy.