Word: farnan
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Rosenblatt put on an epic case--one that stretched out for two full years, with testimony from 157 witnesses. A skilled trial lawyer with a flair for the dramatic, he pulled at jurors' heartstrings by putting his ailing clients front and center. Mary Farnan, a nurse with lung and brain cancer, began smoking at age 11 and was unable to quit even during early rounds of chemotherapy. Frank Amodeo, a 60-year-old Orlando clockmaker with throat cancer, is unable to swallow food. Rosenblatt had hoped to put Angie Della Vecchia on the stand during the damages phase. She died...
...Rosenblatt backed up the pathos--after all, a nurse like Farnan knows the risks of smoking--with strong evidence of malfeasance by the tobacco companies. Taking advantage of mounds of industry documents turned over in other smoker lawsuits, he argued that the cigarette makers had intentionally kept the public in the dark about the dangers of smoking. Even in the face of that evidence, the tobacco companies tried to avoid conceding that cigarettes are addictive or cause cancer. They made a big mistake, says Rosenblatt. "To continue to carry on with this moronic debate...It made the jury as angry...
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