{"id":306500,"date":"2025-04-09T07:04:18","date_gmt":"2025-04-09T07:04:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=306500"},"modified":"2025-04-10T06:13:58","modified_gmt":"2025-04-10T06:13:58","slug":"desperate-bayer-seeks-supreme-court-shield-amid-increasing-roundup-lawsuits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=306500","title":{"rendered":"Desperate Bayer seeks Supreme Court shield amid increasing Roundup lawsuits"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Cassie B.\u2014 Natural News April 8, 2025<\/strong><\/h1>\n<ul>\n<li>Bayer is urging the Supreme Court to block state lawsuits tying Roundup to cancer, seeking to silence victims and protect profits.<\/li>\n<li>The company faces a $16 billion legal crisis, including a recent $2.1 billion verdict in Georgia.<\/li>\n<li>Over 181,000 claims blame glyphosate for cancer, despite Bayer and the EPA denying risks contradicted by independent research.<\/li>\n<li>Bayer is lobbying states to shield pesticide makers from lawsuits, sparking backlash from lawmakers and affected families.<\/li>\n<li>Internal emails reveal Monsanto manipulated EPA studies, but courts continue ruling in favor of cancer victims.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>In an outrageous attempt to dodge accountability, agrochemical giant Bayer has asked the U.S. Supreme Court to halt all state lawsuits linking its flagship herbicide Roundup to cancer in a blatant power grab aimed at silencing victims and protecting profits. The company\u2019s petition, filed last week, argues that federal pesticide laws should prevent states from requiring cancer warnings, even as billions in jury verdicts and settlements pile up over Roundup\u2019s alleged role in causing non-Hodgkin\u2019s lymphoma.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/finance.yahoo.com\/news\/weedkiller-maker-asks-us-supreme-204741092.html?guccounter=1\">The appeal<\/a> follows a Missouri court\u2019s $1.25 million verdict for a St. Louis man who developed cancer after years of using Roundup\u2014a case Bayer insists should never have gone to trial. But this isn\u2019t an isolated incident. Just last month, a Georgia jury hit Bayer with a staggering $2.1 billion penalty in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxbusiness.com\/economy\/bayer-ordered-pay-2-1b-latest-roundup-weedkiller-loss\">another Roundup lawsuit<\/a>, adding to the company\u2019s $16 billion in existing legal liabilities. The question isn\u2019t just about science\u2014it\u2019s about corporate greed rigging the system.<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>A pattern of evasion<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>Bayer, which bought Monsanto in 2018, inherited not just Roundup but a legal nightmare. Over 181,000 claims blame glyphosate\u2014Roundup\u2019s key ingredient\u2014for causing cancer, with studies from the World Health Organization\u2019s cancer agency labeling it \u201cprobably carcinogenic.\u201d Yet Bayer clings to the EPA\u2019s controversial stance that glyphosate is safe, even as courts and independent researchers dispute it.<\/p>\n<p>The Supreme Court rejected Bayer\u2019s plea in 2022, but the company is banking on a favorable ruling now, citing conflicting appeals court decisions. A win would torpedo <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/sustainability\/boards-policy-regulation\/bayer-renews-bid-us-supreme-court-curb-glyphosate-cases-2025-04-04\/\">future lawsuits<\/a>, shielding Bayer from billions more in payouts\u2014a lifeline for a company whose stock has cratered 70% since the Monsanto deal.<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Doubling down on lobbying<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>Even as it fights in court, Bayer is pushing state legislatures to grant immunity to pesticide makers. Georgia just passed a Bayer-backed bill shielding companies from failure-to-warn lawsuits if their products carry federal approval\u2014a move critics call the \u201ccancer gag act.\u201d Similar bills are advancing in Tennessee, North Dakota, and Iowa, though grassroots pushback has stalled some efforts.<\/p>\n<p>In Missouri, Republican state Sen. Nick Schroer blasted the proposal as a \u201cbetrayal of public trust,\u201d while Iowa\u2019s House Republicans refused to advance the bill amid outcry from families who blame pesticides for loved ones\u2019 cancers.<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Profits over people<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>Bayer\u2019s threats to pull glyphosate from the U.S. market if lawsuits continue ring hollow. The company already removed it from consumer Roundup products\u2014but not agricultural ones, where profits are higher. \u201cIf glyphosate falls to the litigation industry, what\u2019s next?\u201d asked Bayer\u2019s Jess Christiansen, framing accountability as a threat to \u201cinnovation.\u201d But for farmers and landscapers diagnosed with cancer after decades of use, the real innovation would be honesty.<\/p>\n<p>The EPA\u2019s cozy relationship with agrochemical giants is under fire, too. While the agency insists glyphosate is safe, internal emails reveal Monsanto manipulated studies and leaned on regulators to suppress concerns. Courts, meanwhile, keep siding with victims\u2014like the California couple awarded $86 million in 2022, a verdict Bayer couldn\u2019t overturn.<\/p>\n<p>Bayer\u2019s Supreme Court ploy is a last-ditch effort to escape justice, but the tide is turning. With billions in losses, a collapsing stock price, and mounting public anger, the company\u2019s playbook\u2014delay, deny, deflect\u2014may be running out of time. For the thousands awaiting their day in court, the message is clear: No corporate shield should outweigh the right to know if <a href=\"https:\/\/glyphosate.news\/\">a product could kill you<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sources for this article include:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/finance.yahoo.com\/news\/weedkiller-maker-asks-us-supreme-204741092.html?guccounter=1\">Finance.Yahoo.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/sustainability\/boards-policy-regulation\/bayer-renews-bid-us-supreme-court-curb-glyphosate-cases-2025-04-04\/\">Reuters.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxbusiness.com\/economy\/bayer-ordered-pay-2-1b-latest-roundup-weedkiller-loss\">FoxBusiness.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.naturalnews.com\/2025-04-08-desperate-bayer-supreme-court-shield-lawsuits.html\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bayer, which bought Monsanto in 2018, inherited not just Roundup but a legal nightmare. Over 181,000 claims blame glyphosate\u2014Roundup\u2019s key ingredient\u2014for causing cancer, with studies from the World Health Organization\u2019s cancer agency labeling it \u201cprobably carcinogenic.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[22,71],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-306500","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-Health","category-Health_and_the_New_World_Order"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306500","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=306500"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306500\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":306501,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306500\/revisions\/306501"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=306500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=306500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=306500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}