mo4ch:>US judge slashes Monsanto cancer victim’s payout by $55 million | Mo4ch News
A US federal judge has reduced the $80 million punitive damages award a jury ordered Monsanto to pay to California cancer victim to $25 million.Judge Vince Chhabria said he was required to diminish the punitive damages because it went beyond constitutional limits set by the US Supreme Court. According to him, the higher award was “constitutionally impermissible” because it was nearly 15 times the compensatory damages award.However, he added that Monsanto “deserves to be punished.” He wrote in the ruling that the “evidence presented at trial about Monsanto’s behavior betrayed a lack of concern about the risk that its product might be carcinogenic.”Also on rt.comBayer must pay another $80mn in Monsanto Roundup cancer trial“Despite years of colorable claims in the scientific community that Roundup causes NHL (non-Hodgkin's lymphoma), Monsanto presented minimal evidence suggesting that it was interested in getting to the bottom of those claims…” Chhabria said, adding:“While Monsanto r…