Roundup faces new scrutiny as courts weigh liability; current role and scope unchanged, focus on ongoing legal and regulatory questions.
The US Supreme Court has heard arguments in Chatrie v. United States, testing whether geofence warrants — court orders that compel companies to produce location histories for devices near a crime — violate the Fourth Amendment. The case stems from a 2019 Virginia bank robbery that used a Google geofence to identify a suspect.
The Supreme Court has ruled 7-2 that federal pesticide law preempts state failure-to-warn lawsuits over Roundup, reversing a $1.25m Missouri verdict and placing thousands of similar claims at legal risk. The decision has boosted Bayer shares and prompted criticism from environmental groups and plaintiffs’ lawyers who say it closes state courthouses to injured people.