US judge slashes $ 80 million price in Monsanto cancer case

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) – A US judge lowered a jury's injury rate from $ 80 million to $ 25 million for a California cancer victim who used Monsanto's Roundup weed killer.

The San Francisco Chronicle reports Monday that US District Judge Vince Chhabria said he was required to reduce the penalty for injury because it went beyond the constitutional limits set by the US Supreme Court.

In March, a jury discovered that glyphosate was a likely cause of the 70-year-old Edwin Hardeman's diagnosis of non-Hodgkin's lymphoma.

Lawyers gave him $ 200,000 for financial loss, $ 3 million for past pain and suffering, another $ 2 million for emotional distress in his upcoming year, and $ 75 million in immediate injury. Hardman's cancer is in remission.

On Friday, Chhabria refused to reverse the jury's verdict that Monsanto's product was a likely cause of Hardeman's cancer.

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Information from: San Francisco Chronicle, http: //www.sfgate. com