Jury backs man who claims Roundup weed killer caused cancer

Jury backs man who claims Roundup weed killer caused cancer

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https://apnews.com/dc5dfde698a747eba677d7df7f950798

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A San Francisco jury on Friday ordered agribusiness giant Monsanto to pay $289 million to a former school groundskeeper dying of cancer, saying the company's popular Roundup weed killer contributed to his disease.

The lawsuit brought by Dewayne Johnson was the first to go to trial among hundreds filed in state and federal courts saying Roundup causes non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, which Monsanto denies.