{"id":79980,"date":"2021-09-01T21:47:15","date_gmt":"2021-09-01T21:47:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/organicconsumers.org\/?p=79980"},"modified":"2021-09-01T21:47:15","modified_gmt":"2021-09-01T21:47:15","slug":"covid-delays-one-roundup-cancer-trial-while-another-looms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/organicconsumers.org\/covid-delays-one-roundup-cancer-trial-while-another-looms\/","title":{"rendered":"COVID Delays One Roundup Cancer Trial While Another Looms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The California trial pitting an elderly cancer victim against Monsanto owner Bayer AG has been delayed due to concerns about the spread of Covid-19, with proceedings now expected to resume next week in a virtual format via Zoom.<\/p>\n<p>Lawyers for&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/usrtk.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Stephens-V.-Monsanto-motion-for-trial-preference.pdf\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">plaintiff Donnetta Stephens<\/a>&nbsp;say that she was a regular user of Monsanto\u2019s glyphosate-based Roundup herbicide for more than 30 years, an extended exposure that caused her to develop non-Hodgkin lymphoma (NHL).<\/p>\n<p>Before the trial interruption jury members heard expert witness testimony from former U.S. government scientist&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.europarl.europa.eu\/cmsdata\/129109\/Christopher%20Portier%20-%20Biosketch.pdf\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Christopher Portier,<\/a>&nbsp;who told jurors of multiple scientific studies that support claims glyphosate herbicides cause NHL. Lawyers for Monsanto sought to discredit Portier, and discount his testimony, arguing he had a vested financial interest in helping plaintiffs\u2019 attorneys.<\/p>\n<p>Additional experts were due to testify this week before in-person proceedings were scuttled due to positive cases of the Covid-19 virus showing up among people in the courtroom.<\/p>\n<p>Stephens was diagnosed with NHL in 2017 and has suffered from numerous health complications amid multiple rounds of chemotherapy since then. Because of her poor health,&nbsp; a judge in December granted Stephens a trial \u201cpreference,\u201d meaning her case was expedited, after her lawyers&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/usrtk.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Stephens-V.-Monsanto-motion-for-trial-preference.pdf\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">informed the court<\/a>&nbsp;that Stephens is \u201cin a perpetual state of pain,\u201d and losing cognition and memory.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The California trial pitting an elderly cancer victim against Monsanto owner Bayer AG has been delayed due to concerns about the spread of Covid-19, with proceedings now expected to resume next week in a virtual format via Zoom.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":73800,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1000,1031],"tags":[7],"organicbytes":[],"countries":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.6 - 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