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All rise.
This court is now in session.
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The Honourable
Walter J Skinner presiding.
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Civil Action 841672.
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Anderson and all versus
W.R. Grace and Beatrice Foods.
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Ladies and gentlemen...
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there's a small town
north of Boston called Woburn.
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Woburn is like many small towns.
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It has homes, it has churches,
it has schools, it has industry.
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But Woburn has something else.
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It has more than its share
of sickness and death.
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Small amounts of solvents
were left on the ground.
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Why? To evaporate.
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Did they? Yes.
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These chemicals never reached
Wells G and H - we will show that.
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And they never made anyone sick.
We will show that, too.
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The idea of criminal court
is crime and punishment.
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The idea of civil court
and personal injury law by nature -
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though no-one says it,
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Ieast of all
the personal injury lawyer himself -
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is money.
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Money for suffering.
Money for death.
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As if that
could somehow relieve suffering.
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As if that could somehow
bring dead children back to life.
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Every credit card application
we send, we get more in the mail.
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Here's one from North Dakota.
Fill it out. Fill them all out.
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It's the last great pyramid scheme.
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The terrain of East Woburn was
actually shaped 12,000 years ago,