Attorneys representing close to 20,000 individuals who filed lawsuits against Bayer regarding alleged harm from its Roundup herbicide asked a Missouri court Wednesday to postpone consideration of the German corporation’s massive $7.25 billion nationwide settlement proposal. The legal teams contend that expediting the process would harm the rights of numerous cancer patients and their loved ones.
According to court documents filed in St. Louis state court, the lawyers stated the settlement agreement should not receive expedited treatment for potential preliminary approval scheduled for March 4, just fifteen days following the settlement announcement.
This legal challenge represents the first significant coordinated opposition to Bayer’s efforts to settle the majority of approximately 65,000 outstanding Roundup litigation cases pending in both state and federal courtrooms across the nation.
