"The US Supreme Court has set an April hearing in a closely watched case brought by Bayer that seeks to make the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) the ultimate arbiter of warning labels on pesticides such as the company’s popular Roundup weed killer.
Bayer has said that getting a favorable ruling from the high court is key to quashing costly nationwide litigation brought by people claiming Roundup and other Bayer herbicides caused them to develop cancer.
The Supreme Court noted in a docket entry that a hearing on the case is scheduled for April 27.
Bayer has been fending off over 100,000 lawsuits since buying Monsanto in 2018 and so far has paid more than $11 billion in settlements and jury verdicts to tens of thousands of people suffering from non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma (NHL) they blame on exposure to Roundup and other Monsanto glyphosate-based herbicide brands. At the core of those lawsuits are claims that the company failed to warn users of the risk of cancer."
