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In a few weeks,
Monsanto will go on trial again. And when it does, the pesticide-maker won't be able to suppress
evidence that the company
ghostwrote scientific studies and otherwise tried to influence scientists and regulators in an attempt to hide the potential health risks of its flagship product,
Roundup weedkiller.
This week, U.S. District Judge Vince Chhabria, the federal judge in San Francisco overseeing
620 cases involving
Monsanto's Roundup weedkiller and cancer victims, ruled that the evidence could be introduced in the upcoming trial. According to a Reuters
report, Chhabria said the documents were "super relevant."
Chhabria's ruling almost guarantees that the documents in question will play a role when, on February 25, a jury in San Francisco Federal Court, begins hearing the case of
Edwin Hardeman vs. Monsanto. Hardeman alleges that Roundup caused his non-Hodgkin lymphoma cancer.
Hardeman's case follows the August 10, 2018,
$289-million judgment (later
reduced to
$78 million) awarded to DeWayne "Lee" Johnson, a former school groundskeeper who also sued Monsanto for causing his non-Hodgkin lymphoma. Monsanto's
appeal of the $78-million judgment is still pending.
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