The U.S. Supreme Court will hear Bayer’s (BAYRY) appeal challenging thousands of lawsuits that claim its top-selling Roundup weed killer causes cancer, Bloomberg’s Jef Feeley reports. The high court agree to hear the company’s appeal of a $1.25M Missouri jury verdict over the product on the grounds that some of the claims in the 2023 case were preempted by federal law, the author says, noting that Bayer officials hope the court’s ruling will help block thousands of Roundup cases that include failure-to-warn claims.
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