Trump Administration Urges Supreme Court to Overturn Ruling on Bayer’s Roundup

Leaving the ruling in place means ‘a jury may second-guess the agency’s science-based judgments,’ the government said.

Weed killers and other products at a hardware store in Los Angeles on Jan. 26, 2017. Reed Saxon/AP Photo

Lawyers for the Trump administration have urged the U.S. Supreme Court to intervene in a case that found the maker of weedkiller Roundup liable for not warning it can cause cancer.

A jury found in favor of John Durnell, a Missouri man who developed non-Hodgkin lymphoma after exposure to Roundup, which was developed by the Monsanto Company. The jury’s finding of liability was upheld by a state appeals court, and the Missouri Supreme Court declined to take up the matter.