Blindsided: The True Story of One Man's Crusade Against Chemical Giant DuPont
- ISBN-10
- 1722520019
- ISBN-13
- 9781722520014
- Series
- Blindsided
- Category
- Biography & Autobiography
- Pages
- 248
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2019-09-23
- Publisher
- Gildan Media LLC aka G&D Media
- Author
- James L Ferraro
Description
In 1996, an unprecedented decade-long courtroom battle was waged in Florida to help bring justice and hope to the family of a young boy born with no eyes after his mother was doused outside of a local u-pick farm by a chemical fungicide believed to have caused his birth defect and the birth defects of many other children. It was a battle that nearly everyone but attorney Jim Ferraro deemed unwinnable. After all, it involved one of the world’s most powerful industrial giants. In the process, it was a fight that changed the landscape of tort law forever. Before it was over Castillo-vs-DuPont would go down in history as the first and one of the most important cases of its kind, setting precedent and also sparking a crucial debate over the questionable use of what is known as the “junk-science defense.” Blindsided is a blow-by-blow account of how a lone attorney challenged a dangerous threat to public health....and how the defenders never saw defeat coming. It’s a real life David and Goliath story―a true courtroom drama for the ages.
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- 2021-03-23
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