Bayer Wins US Legal Shield From Roundup Warning-Label Suits

Source: Bloomberg

June 25, 2026 at 10:03 AM EDT
Updated on June 25, 2026 at 10:49 AM EDT


The US Supreme Court shielded Bayer AG from tens of thousands of claims that its Roundup herbicide should have been labeled as a cancer risk in a ruling that will help end a decade-long flood of lawsuits that have cost the company more than $10 billion.

Voting 7-2, the justices threw out a $1.25 million jury verdict won by a Missouri man who blamed Roundup for his non-Hodgkin lymphoma. The majority said consumers can’t sue Bayer for the absence of a cancer warning given that federal regulators concluded a cautionary statement wasn’t necessary.

The ruling marks a milestone in Bayer’s drive to contain the Roundup litigation by the end of the year. The company is also trying to entice Roundup users to take part in a proposed $7.25 billion class-action settlement. Bayer rose as much as 20% in Frankfurt, the biggest intraday gain since March 2003.

Justice Brett Kavanaugh wrote for the majority that federal law “demands” uniform pesticide labels and that the state law “failure-to-warn” claim at issue in the case “would require a cancer warning on Roundup’s label — a requirement ‘in addition to’ and ‘different from’ the label required” by the Environmental Protection Agency.

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