John P. Coale is known for suing tobacco companies—he helped obtain a $368 billion settlement in the 1990s. The personal injury litigator has also targeted gun manufacturers in court.
Now he’s come out of retirement to take a free speech case against his biggest titans yet— Facebook Inc., Twitter Inc., and Alphabet Inc.'s Google. His client? One Donald J. Trump.
“The woke stuff has moved me to the right,” Coale said in an interview. “A lot of people hate Trump, but that’s not what the case is about. The case is about whether these companies can do what they’ve been ...
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