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U.S. Supreme Court rejects Bayer bid to toss Roundup suits

Washington | Reuters — The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday rejected Bayer’s bid to dismiss legal claims by customers who contend its Roundup herbicide causes cancer as the German company seeks to avoid potentially billions of dollars in damages. The justices turned away a Bayer appeal and left in place a lower court decision that […] Read more




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U.S. top court rejects POM Wonderful appeal over ads

Washington | Reuters — Businesses better have good evidence to back up claims of health benefits from their products, the U.S. Federal Trade Commission said on Monday after the Supreme Court rejected POM Wonderful’s challenge to FTC findings that the juice maker’s advertising was misleading. The U.S. Supreme Court left in place a lower-court ruling […] Read more

U.S. Supreme Court rules for Monsanto in seed patent fight

In a ruling that drew sighs of relief from the biotechnology industry, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled on Monday that an Indiana farmer violated agribusiness company Monsanto’s patent for a type of soybean. The court agreed unanimously with Monsanto that Vernon Bowman, 75, had performed an end-run around the law when he used the company’s […] Read more