Calif. High Court Declines To Review Prosecution-Delay Ruling In Pesticide Lawsuit

( August 26, 2026, 9:11 AM EDT) -- SAN FRANCISCO — The California Supreme Court denied review of an appellate ruling that reinstated a wrongful death lawsuit alleging that a Monsanto pesticide caused a woman’s breast cancer, letting stand a decision that the trial court erred in dismissing the lawsuit for delay in prosecution after the plaintiffs made a minimal showing that the delay was excusable....