We’ll link you directly to a very personal first-hand report on closing statements in the weeks-long Johnson v. Monsanto lawsuit in California. Close observer Zen Honeycutt, founder of Moms Across America, says that the jury’s decision could “go either way.”
August 8, 2018 — Attorneys for the plaintiff, DeWayne Johnson, are asking for $39 million in compensation for possibly fatal suffering from his non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma. In addition, the plaintiffs ask for more than $773 million in total punitive damages.
This case is an important threshold for the 4,000 or more other individuals threatening to bring similar cases to trial.
This link takes you to Zen’s report on the Moms Across America website. Once on that site, you can then open a video of NBC news coverage in San Francisco, plus updates from observers at the trial.
Update Aug. 10: Johnson’s attorneys point out that Monsanto’s expert witness didn’t get his arithmetic right in a key “historical data” claim.