OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) A judge has cut a jury award in a lawsuit that found that Monsantos Roundup herbicide caused cancer in a California couple from $2.055 billion to $87 million, the third time a judge has reduced an award in a lawsuit over the disputed chemical.
The judge said Thursday that evidence supports the jurys conclusion that Roundup was a substantial factor in causing non-Hodgkins lymphoma in Alva and Alberta Pilliod, the San Francisco Chronicle reported.
Alameda County Superior Court Judge Winifred Smith said evidence also supported the finding that Monsanto knew the herbicides active ingredient, glyphosate, could be dangerous and failed to warn the couple from Livermore, California.
