A California judge on Monday reduced by more than $200 million a jury verdict linking Bayer AG's Roundup weedkiller to cancer but upheld the jury's findings that the company acted with malice. San Francisco Superior Court Judge Suzanne Ramos Bolanos said the $250 million in punitive damages awarded by the jury must be slimmed down to match the $39.25 million in compensatory damages that the jury found appropriate. If the plaintiff agrees to the reduction by Dec. 7, no new trial is needed. ...
Suzanne Ramos Bolanos was born in California.