Supreme Court ruling blocks thousands of lawsuits against maker of Roundup weedkiller
Containers of Roundup are displayed on a store shelf in San Francisco on Feb. 24, 2019. (AP Photo/Haven Daley, File)
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court sided with the maker of Roundup weedkiller Thursday in a ruling expected to block thousands of lawsuits alleging it failed to warn people the product could cause cancer.
The case came before the justices after a tidal wave of litigation that included some multibillion-dollar verdicts against Bayer, a Germany-based agrochemical manufacturer that acquired Roundup when it bought its original producer Monsanto in 2018.