Johnson v. Monsanto Co. was the first lawsuit to proceed to trial over Monsanto's Roundup herbicide product causing cancer. The lawsuit alleged that the exposure of glyphosate, an active ingredient in the Roundup product, caused Dewayne "Lee" Johnson's non-Hodgkin lymphoma. In a landmark verdict, Monsanto's purchaser Bayer Corporation was ordered by a San Francisco jury to pay $289m in punitive damages and compensatory damages.[1][2][3][4][5][6] Monsanto, and after June 2018 Bayer, appealed the verdict several times.[7] The award was cut to $78 million,[8] then reduced to $21 million after appeal.[9]
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- ^ Egelko, Bob (July 21, 2020). "Award to Vallejo groundskeeper in Monsanto cancer case slashed again - verdict upheld". San Francisco Chronicle. Retrieved March 3, 2021.