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Dealing with Defeat

October 2, 2017

During the appellate process at the Third District Court of Appeals in Florida, DuPont did two notable and important th…

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The Jury Deliberates

September 21, 2017

On the first full day of deliberations in the Castillo-DuPont case, as the lawyers were going through the evidence with…

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Asking Damages, and Dealing with Defense Badmouthing

September 18, 2017

The total damages we were pursuing in the Castillo-DuPont case were in the general range of $20 to $30 million.

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An Unshakeable Witness

September 7, 2017

In my last post, I wrote about some of the dirty tricks the defense was employing during this trial, and how one of the defe…

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The Delicacy of Working with Numbers in a Court Case

Since the beginning of this trial, DuPont had been disseminating propaganda about its product and the case itself. I wa…

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The Defense Presents Its Opening Remarks in the Case

The lawyer representing Pine Island Farms, Greg Gaebe, focused in his opening on the issues directly involving the spr…

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Dealing with Objections and Getting Things Underway

The Castillo-DuPont case had gotten underway, and I was dealing with initial objections that the DuPont lawyers had th…

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The Intricacies of Jury Selection

When we had finished with the Frye hearing for the Castillo-DuPont trial, it was time to select the jury for trial. …

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