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Trump Administration Sides with Bayer in Roundup Lawsuit Challenge

4/27/2026

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U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration has joined Bayer arguing pesticide regulations bar state failure-to-warn lawsuits.
The U.S. Supreme Court will hear Monday arguments in a Missouri case challenging a $1.25 million verdict that awarded a St. Louis man a jury award after he developed non-Hodgkin lymphoma from spraying Roundup.
The administration’s stance reverses the prior Biden position and puts it at odds with some supporters of the Make America Healthy Again agenda.

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U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration has joined Bayer arguing pesticide regulations bar state failure-to-warn lawsuits.
The U.S. Supreme Court will hear Monday arguments in a Missouri case challenging a $1.25 million verdict that awarded a St. Louis man a jury award after he developed non-Hodgkin lymphoma from spraying Roundup.
The administration’s stance reverses the prior Biden position and puts it at odds with some supporters of the Make America Healthy Again agenda.