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Moneyballing Testimony: A Field Guide to Deposition Gorillas

The Cloud Court Blog

Over the years I’ve attended a lot of depositions. When the deposition is over, the people that were in the room often have a sort of inexplicable, Venn-type diagram of disparate recollections about what actually happened. But now, as my team has continued to study depositions, I've come to suspect that something else is at play here.

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Strobel v. Johnson & Johnson: Got a Hearsay Problem? Don't Give Up.

Evidence at Trial

It is used in a variety of applications ranging from pharmaceuticals and cosmetics to ceramics, paints, paper, and asphalt roofing. The Court explained that “[b]ecause of this shared geological provenance, asbestos is often found intergrown as an ‘accessory mineral’ within a talc deposit.” at 41 – 42.