Judge Vince Chhabria of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California.
Monsanto Co.’s request to reverse an $80 million verdict over its herbicide Roundup appeared unlikely after a federal judge told lawyers Tuesday that there was evidence at trial supporting punitive damages.
At a hearing Tuesday, U.S. District Judge Vince Chhabria said he was unlikely to keep $2 million in future non-economic damages or the entire $75 million in punitive damages. But he insisted that Monsanto’s conduct, as demonstrated at trial, justified some amount of punitive damages.
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