{"id":11489,"date":"2018-05-31T06:24:14","date_gmt":"2018-05-31T10:24:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/?p=11489"},"modified":"2018-05-31T06:24:14","modified_gmt":"2018-05-31T10:24:14","slug":"landmark-lawsuit-claims-monsanto-hid-cancer-danger-of-weedkiller-for-decades","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/2018\/05\/31\/landmark-lawsuit-claims-monsanto-hid-cancer-danger-of-weedkiller-for-decades\/","title":{"rendered":"Landmark lawsuit claims Monsanto hid cancer danger of weedkiller for decades"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Carey Gillam\u00a0\u00a0journalist and author<\/a>, and a public interest researcher forUS Right to Know<\/a>, a not-for-profit food industry research group.<\/em><\/p>\n

At the age of 46, DeWayne Johnson is not ready to die. But with cancer spread through most of his body, doctors say he probably has just months to live. Now Johnson, a husband and father of three in\u00a0California<\/a>, hopes to survive long enough to make Monsanto take the blame for his fate.<\/p>\n

On 18 June, Johnson will become the first person to take\u00a0the global seed and chemical company<\/a>\u00a0to trial on allegations that it has spent decades hiding the cancer-causing dangers of its popular Roundup herbicide products \u2013 and his case has just received a major boost.<\/p>\n

Last week Judge Curtis Karnow\u00a0issued an order<\/a>\u00a0clearing the way for jurors to consider not just scientific evidence related to what caused Johnson\u2019s cancer, but allegations that Monsanto suppressed evidence of the risks of its weed killing products. Karnow\u00a0ruled<\/a>\u00a0that the trial will proceed and a jury would be allowed to consider possible punitive damages.<\/p>\n