In a dark courtroom, an attorney for chemical giant DuPont made a small gesture in hopes he could convince a jury his client isn’t liable for causing the cancer of two rural Ohioans: He walked to an overhead projector and put down a little white pill.
“Aspirin, the wonder drug,” Damond Mace, partner with Squire Patton Boggs, said Wednesday, as he shook the drug’s bottle and pointed to the pill’s projection.
“Now cut that little guy into one billion pieces, those tiny little specks, you wouldn’t be able to see it, how small it is,” he said. ...
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