Was the judge overseeing the $80M Roundup verdict swayed by a public relations campaign against her?
Legal Newsline | By Daniel Fisher
Monsanto has appealed a groundbreaking $80 million verdict over its Roundup herbicide, saying the judge committed several serious legal errors and reversed herself on the issue of punitive damages after she was placed on the receiving end of an “extraordinary and coordinated public relations campaign” that included a full-page ad in the San Francisco Chronicle and an op-ed by singer Neil Young and his wife Darryl Hannah.
In its appeal, Monsanto says the trial was tainted by Bolanos’s judicial errors which included a ruling allowing plaintiffs to present findings by the one quasi-regulatory agency that has found a cancer link with Roundup but rejecting contrary findings by the Environmental Protection Agency and government agencies in Europe, Canada and other countries.