Appeals court cuts damages further in glyphosate cancer case

A California appeals court has drastically reduced the damages that Bayer must pay in a lawsuit linking the herbicide glyphosate (Roundup) to cancer.

In the 20 July decision, the court said that Dewayne Johnson and his lawyers had provided ‘abundant’ and ‘substantial’ evidence that glyphosate and other ingredients in Roundup products caused his deadly form of non-Hodgkin lymphoma. However, it cut the damages awarded to $20 million (£16 million) – nearly 75% less than the $79 million that the trial judge had allowed, which in itself was a very dramatic cut from the $289 million awarded by the jury in August 2018.