Woman Opposing Roundup Class Settlement Seeks Supreme Court Review Of $39.55M Deal

Mealey's (December 23, 2022, 7:18 AM EST) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — A woman who was a member of a class of plaintiffs but opposed a $39.55 million class action settlement for money spent on the herbicide Roundup has filed a petition for writ of certiorari in the U.S. Supreme Court saying that it should resolve a circuit court conflict and provide guidance on the permissibility of what are called cy pres remedies, which the petitioner contends are “a serious abuse of the class-action mechanism.”...