The US Supreme Court agreed on Friday to hear Bayer’s bid to sharply limit lawsuits claiming that the company’s Roundup weedkiller causes cancer and potentially avert billions of dollars in damages.

The justices will not resolve the decades-long dispute over whether Roundup's key ingredient, glyphosate, causes cancer.

The Supreme Court agreed on Friday to hear an appeal from global agrochemical manufacturer Bayer to block thousands of state lawsuits alleging it failed to warn people that its popular weedkiller ...

The Supreme Court on Friday took up a bid from Bayer to limit liability for pesticide makers, including Bayer’s Roundup weed killer, which has become the subject of numerous cancer suits. The court ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Supreme Court agreed on Friday to hear an appeal from global agrochemical manufacturer Bayer to block thousands of state ...

Consumers sue over cancer they attribute to Roundup Bayer aims to prevent suits making state law claims Company faces about 65,000 such suits in US courts The justices took up Bayer's appeal of a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Containers of Roundup are displayed for sale on a store shelf in San Francisco. (Haven Daley / Associated Press) The Supreme Court ...