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Federal judge sends Bayer's $7.25 billion Roundup settlement back to Missouri state court
- A federal judge sent Bayer’s proposed $7.25 billion Roundup settlement back to Missouri state court, overruling objections from some cancer victims.
- Judge Henry Autrey found the objecting plaintiffs couldn’t transfer the case to federal court — only the defendant (Bayer) could do that.
- The February settlement aims to resolve nearly all Roundup-cancer suits; the plaintiffs’ earlier move to federal court had briefly disrupted Bayer’s fast-track plan.
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