Trial Over Roundup Cancer Claim Begins With Judge’s Sanction Threat
Courthouse News Service | By Helen Christophi
On the first day of a federal jury trial over whether Monsanto’s weed killer Roundup caused a California man’s cancer, a San Francisco judge threatened to sanction the man’s lawyer for discussing prohibited evidence in front of the jury.
Calling the attempts to discuss the prohibited evidence “deliberate,” U.S. District Judge Vince Chhabria warned he would cut short attorney Aimee Wagstaff’s opening statement if she continued to disobey orders to limit opening statements to the causes of non-Hodgkin lymphoma, the disease plaintiff Edward Hardeman has.