Bayer has scored a key victory in its defense against Roundup lawsuits as the U.S. | Bayer has scored a key victory in its defense against Roundup lawsuits, as the U.S. Supreme Court has overturned a $1.25 million verdict from a jury in Missouri, which sided with a man who claimed that years of exposure to the herbicide caused his non-Hodgkin lymphoma. The decision blunts tens of thousands of state-level failure-to-warn lawsuits.

The court ruled against a man who sued Monsanto, alleging its weed killer Roundup caused his cancer.

The U.S. Supreme Court today ruled Bayer cannot be sued over state-level claims that the company failed to warn the public about cancer risks from its popular weedkiller…