A San Francisco jury is handing down a reported 250-million-dollar award to a Bay Area man who sued the Monsanto Company.
Dewayne Lee Johnson claimed in his civil suit that his continued exposure to Monsanto's Roundup weed killers caused his cancer. Johnson is a high school grounds keeper in Benicia and has been diagnosed with non-Hodgkins Lymphoma.
He will receive 250-million-dollars in punitive damages, plus up to 39-million-dollars more for past and future economic losses.