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SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Bayer AG's Monsanto Group has received an interim ruling authorizing a retrial for $ 250 million in punitive damages awarded by a jury to a gardener who said the weed killer Glyphosate had given him cancer.
PHOTO: Monsanto's Roundup Herbicide Sprayers are on display for sale in a gardening store near Brussels, November 27, 2017. REUTERS / Yves Herman / File Photo
According to documents filed Wednesday at the California Superior Court in San Francisco, Judge Suzanne Bolanos was considering accepting the company's petition for a new punitive damages lawsuit.
On August 10, a jury ruled that Monsanto had failed to warn school guardians, Dewayne Johnson, as well as other consumers, of the cancer risks posed by its herbicides. He awarded $ 39 million in compensatory damages and $ 250 million in punitive damages.
(This version of the story modifies the first and second paragraphs to reflect the tentative nature of this decision.)
Report by Jim Christie in San Francisco, written by Tina Bellon in New York; edited by Bill Berkrot
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