Monsanto's former CEO ordered to testify in St. Louis Roundup trial

Former Monsanto Co. Chairman and CEO Hugh Grant has been ordered to testify in persons at a Roundup trial in St. Louis in January. Grant, who led St. Louis-based Monsanto from 2003 until the company was sold to Bayer AG of Germany for $63 billion in 2018, was subpoenaed by lawyers for plaintiff Sharlean Gordon, who contends the Roundup weedkiller caused her non-Hodgkin lymphoma. The trial is scheduled to begin Jan. 27 in St. Louis County Circuit Court. Grant's lawyers have been fighting the subpoena,…
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