New Delhi, June 26 -- WASHINGTON - John Durnell spent roughly two decades using Roundup on his property and developed non-Hodgkin lymphoma. A Missouri jury concluded he was owed $1.25 million. The Supreme Court on Thursday concluded otherwise.

In a 7-2 ruling written by Justice Brett Kavanaugh, the court held that the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act preempts state failure-to-warn claims against Bayer BAYN, which means state juries cannot require a cancer warning on Roundup's label when the Environmental Protection Agency has not required one. The decision does not address whether glyphosate causes cancer. It addresses who gets to decide what the label must say, and it settles that question firmly in favor of federal r...