Supreme Court rules federal law shields Monsanto from Roundup cancer lawsuits

The 7-2 ruling found that EPA's approval of Roundup's label without a cancer warning preempts state failure-to-warn claims

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The Supreme Court ruled Thursday that federal pesticide law bars state-court lawsuits alleging that Monsanto, a subsidiary of Bayer AG, failed to warn consumers that its Roundup weedkiller could cause cancer.

In a 7-2 decision in Monsanto Co. v. Durnell, the court found that the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act expressly preempts state failure-to-warn claims because the Environmental Protection Agency has approved Roundup's label without a cancer warning and federal regulations require manufacturers to use that EPA-approved label. Justice Brett Kavanaugh wrote the majority opinion, joined by Chief Justice John Roberts and Justices Clarence Thomas, Samuel Alito, Sonia Sotomayor, Elena Kagan, and Amy Coney........

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