Overview
- The case arrives from Missouri, where a court upheld a $1.25 million verdict for John Durnell after a jury found Roundup contributed to his non-Hodgkin's lymphoma.
- Bayer argues that federal law bars state-law warnings because EPA has repeatedly found glyphosate not likely carcinogenic and has approved labels without cancer warnings.
- President Donald Trump's administration urged review, with Solicitor General D. John Sauer telling the Court that Bayer's reading of the federal statute is correct.
- Roughly 65,000 plaintiffs still have claims pending despite Bayer paying about $10 billion to settle earlier suits, and trial outcomes have ranged from defense wins to a $2.1 billion Georgia verdict in 2025.
- A ruling for Bayer could shut down most state failure-to-warn suits and reshape its liability exposure, as the company has pulled glyphosate from U.S. consumer products and warned it may reconsider agricultural sales.