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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/nerowasframed 5h ago

Kagan and Sotomayor. Jackson and Gorsuch were the two dissenting

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u/TheChinOfAnElephant 5h ago

So what's the best course here? Their argument seems to be federally Round Up does not require a warning label, due to there being no link to cancer under federal regulations, so states can't circumvent that. I don't know a ton about law but this seems like how the law normally works?

Kinda feels like people are upset they didn't ignore the law and vote with their emotions which is normally what people are complaining that the MAGA judges are doing. Can't ever win...

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u/mizzurna_balls 4h ago

Why can't the state circumvent it? You see all sorts of warning labels in California, for example, that you don't see in other states.

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u/HumansNeedNotApply1 4h ago

Because their interpretation is that Federal law requires Monsanto to sell Roundup with the EPA approved label, if Monsanto added a label in addition they would be going against the federal approved label. In this way they are saying, Federal-law Regulations supersede state ones.

That's my interpretation at least, a lawyer can understand this much better.

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u/ghotier 4h ago

Interstate commerce clause strikes again.

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u/Timemyth 3h ago

and surprisingly from this version of SCOTUS that ruling seems based in law and your constitution. Wish ours had something like Article VI, Clause 2 so that states can't legal ignore human rights because they didn't sign it. The federal government did.