third of their value this is a story we've been following all along what's the latest let's ask michael baume managing partner of baum hedlund era state and goldman law firm a member of the executive committee for the recently consolidated federal monsanto roundup lawsuits he joins us from oakland last summer we interviewed robert f. kennedy jr with whom you are working on this as a jury ordered bear to pay two hundred eighty nine point two million dollars to former california groundskeeper with lymphoma a judge later reduced that award to seventy eight point five male which bayer is now appealing what was the basis for the reduction and what is the rationale for bear's appeal well the basis for the reduction was that the judge thought that the compensatory damages of thirty nine million dollars already reflected very high. compensation and include incorporated some punitive damages if it so she thought that a one to one ratio between the compensatory damages and the pain of damages. was justified. that's not ordinarily done with a compensatory damages case and something like not hodgkins lym