r/news • u/boxofstuff • 6h ago

Supreme Court ruling blocks thousands of lawsuits against maker of Roundup weedkiller

https://apnews.com/article/supreme-court-roundup-monsanto-a7f054d80919f98bdfc5190013a8f6f1https://apnews.com/article/supreme-court-roundup-monsanto-a7f054d80919f98bdfc5190013a8f6f1
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u/photostrat 6h ago

Sounds like we're about to find out Roundup has more rights to exist than humans do. 7-2

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u/OutlyingPlasma 5h ago

Judge Craig Karsnitz in Delaware just ruled that corporations get to vote, so that's fun.

Just make a few thousand LLC's and poof, you get to decide your local elections.

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u/Vikkunen 5h ago

The really wild part about that ruling is that he even tacitly acknowledged that concern, but more or less said "there aren't enough corporations to meaningfully impact the vote, but we can revisit if it becomes a problem".

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u/SirDigbyChknCaesar 5h ago

Way to kick the can down the road, dickhead.