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Bayer seeks judicial relief from Roundup verdict:

https://www.wsj.com/articles/bayer-steps-up-legal-fight-over-weed-killer-blamed-for-cancer-1537322047

The German company on Tuesday said it wants a California state court judge to overturn the jury’s verdict, order a new trial or reduce damages, according to a court filing. The $289 million award granted in August came in one of the first of thousands of cases filed by gardeners, farmers and others claiming Bayer’s Roundup herbicide gave them cancer.

… Legal academics said successful challenges to jury verdicts aren’t uncommon. Last October, another California state judge overturned a $417 million judgment against Johnson & Johnson after a woman alleged that the company’s baby powder contributed to her developing ovarian cancer.

In January, a judge in Pennsylvania state court overturned a jury’s verdict and $28 million in damages and ruled in Bayer’s favor in a lawsuit alleging the company and Johnson & Johnson didn’t properly warn about internal bleeding risks from the drug Xarelto.