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Juror urges U.S. judge to uphold $80 million Roundup verdict against Bayer https://t.co/sd1p1Shw33 #Monsanto
— Adrian Holman (@ahol888) July 9, 2019
When a person is picked to be a part of a jury, then that person has to be totally unbiased throughout the entire proceedings. In an appeal of an $80 million verdict given to a man in California who obtained non-Hodgkins lymphoma from using the weed killer RoundUp, attorneys for Bayer AG, the owner of the Monsanto, the manufacturer, has pulled out a last-ditch effort to not pay the specified amount.
As evidence, a juror that was on the panel for the previous verdict wrote a letter to the judge that is presiding over this appeal stating that the judge should uphold the total amount of $80 million. This stupidity could possibly give Bayer some hope that they do not have to pay in this case or on future cases.
I hope that they have to pay.
They might not have to pay that much because of this dumb juror. This incident highlights a problem throughout the world. People are looking to acquire their 15 minutes of fame without thinking about the consequences afterwards.