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Yay: The Supreme Court just embraced science and sense over hysteria and trial-lawyer greed, slapping down an entire class of lawsuits that aimed to suck hundreds of billions of dollars out of US businesses just because (as bank robber Willie Sutton once put it) \u201cthat\u2019s where the money is.\u201d<\/p>\n

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In the case at hand, the junk-science claim was that Roundup, the widely used weedkiller, caused a Missouri man\u2019s cancer \u2014 so the company that makes it owed him (and his lawyers!) $1.25 million because it never put a warning to that effect on the label.<\/p>\n

The problem is, the federal Environmental Protection Agency has repeatedly<\/em> tested that claim about glyphosate (the herbicide\u2019s key ingredient) and found no such effect, and so refuses to require a warning.<\/p>\n

By 7-2, the justices ruled that state courts can\u2019t create their own standards for such warnings when the feds have already acted.<\/p>\n

FIFRA (the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide and Rodenticide Act) established a single <\/em>national labeling system specifically to avoid a proliferation of state requirements.<\/p>\n

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This ruling nixes thousands<\/em> of similar suits against Bayer (which bought Roundup\u2019s maker, Monsanto, in 2019), and countless more<\/em> efforts to sue other companies with similar theories.<\/p>\n

Since judgments in Roundup cases have hit the billions, the lawsuits were never going to stop until the Supremes shut the racket down.<\/p>\n

And not just Roundup cases: The ambulance-chasing bar spends big to fund studies that declare all manner of substances to possibly<\/em> be cancer-causing, claims that paid \u201cexperts\u201d can cite to give juries an excuse to help out a sympathetic plaintiff.<\/p>\n

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The high court just dealt a huge blow to that scam, a win for companies that make things and a loss for racketeering lawyers.<\/p>\n

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