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Johnson v. Monsanto Co. was the first lawsuit to proceed to trial over Monsanto's Roundup herbicide products causing cancer. The lawsuit alleged that Roundup products caused Dewayne "Lee" Johnson's non-Hodgkin lymphoma and that Monsanto failed to warn consumers that Roundup products were potentially carcinogenic. In a landmark verdict, Monsanto's purchaser Bayer Corporation was ordered by a San Francisco jury to pay $289m in punitive damages and compensatory damages. Monsanto, and after June 2018 Bayer, appealed the verdict several times. The award was cut to $78 million, then reduced to $21 million after appeal.
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