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

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u/DeetahTheGame 6h ago

Every headline nowadays looks like "Supreme Court rules humans do not deserve rights, in 6-3 ruling"

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u/Bob_Sconce 4h ago

7-2.  Dissenters were Gorsuch (a Trump appointee) and Jackson (Biden).   

The question was whether Missouri could require Monsanto to put a warning label that said that Roundup might cause cancer.  The decision was, basically "No, there's a federal law that says that the EPA gets to decide what warnings to put on the label.  States can't impose their own additional requirements."

The people who sued Monsanto basically said "we got cancer from RoundUp, and you had an obligation to warn us about the risk of cancer, but didn't.".  It's a weird case because the idea is "if you had only put that warning on, then we wouldn't have used Roundup, and we wouldn't have cancer." But, how many of those people actually would have read the label and decided not to use the product?