Cheer the huge Supreme Court slapdown of racketeering lawyers
In the case at hand, the junk-science claim was that Roundup, the widely used weedkiller, caused a Missouri man’s cancer — so the company that makes it owed him (and his lawyers!) $1.25 million because it never put a warning to that effect on the label.
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Opinion editorial Cheer the huge Supreme Court slapdown of racketeering lawyers By Post Editorial Board Published June 27, 2026, 2:27 p.m. ET The case involved the claim that Roundup, the widely used weedkiller, caused a Missouri man's cancer -- so the company that makes it owed him (and his lawyers!) $1.25 million because it never put a warning to that effect on the label. Getty Images See more of our coverage in your search results. Add The New York Post on Google Yay: The Supreme Court just embraced science and sense over hysteria and trial-lawyer greed, slapping down an entire class of lawsuits that aimed to suck hundreds of billions of dollars out of US businesses just because (as bank robber Willie Sutton once put it) “that’s where the money is.” In the case at hand, the…
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