Federal Judge Blocks Roundup Label Warning Order in CA.

Federal Judge Blocks Roundup Label Warning Order in CA.

Introduction

U.S. District Judge William B. Shubb confirmed on June 11 that Roundup and other glyphosate-based weedkiller products in the state of California need not carry cancer risk warning labels, rejecting new arguments to amend the injunction.

The State's attorney general and director of the Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment (OEHHA), filed a motion to halt the introduction of warning labels in February. However, Judge Shubb dismissed the motion stating the injunction by the State was not purely factual and uncontroversial under the First Amendment and sided with Monsanto and other weed killer manufacturers.

The state and federal courts have several cases filed against Monsanto and other agricultural industry groups over cancer warning label requirements. More than 2,200 lawsuits are pending in the U.S. District Court in San Francisco, which are consolidated as a part of a multidistrict litigation (MDL No. 2741: In Re: Roundup Products Liability Litigation) under Judge Vince Chhabria. The first trial for a 46-year-old plaintiff, who is suffering from-Hodgkin Lymphoma(NHL) allegedly due to exposure to glyphosate, convened on June 18 in the Superior Court for the County of San Francisco.