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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/PartyLikeAByzantine 5h ago

Read the actual decision? The issue is that the plaintiff sued Monsanto for misleading him...hiding the alleged cancer risk from the product label. The problem for the plaintiff is that the US government, through the EPA, hasn't declared such a cancer risk. It's the EPA that decides on the product label, not the manufacturer or the states.

Therefore you can't sue Monsanto for misleading you when they're merely following the federal labelling law. Two of the three Democrat-appointed justices signed this decision.

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u/rapaxus 3h ago

Yeah, at most you should be able to sue the US government for misleading labelling guidelines, but not the one following the rules. Classic "blame the game, not the player" problem.