Word: hoerner
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...unofficial motto was: "Sue the bastards." Backed up by an articulate biologist, Charles Wurster, who was his perennial best witness. Yannacone launched fierce and well-documented attacks on DDT in Michigan and Wisconsin; eventually both states banned most uses of the chemical. Later, he haled into court a Hoerner Waldorf paper plant in Montana for polluting the air; the resulting publicity embarrassed the company into installing antipollution devices before the litigation could run its course...