Blindsided

Blindsided

By James L. Ferraro
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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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  1. Anon
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    Informative, entertaining

    Excellent book. Excellent story. My quickest consumption of an audiobook to date. Was on the edge of my seat the whole time. Learned a bit about the legal system too. If I would have read/listened to this earlier in my life, I probably would have wanted to become a lawyer. But this book also affirmed that I'm just not quick-witted enough for the profession, especially in a high stakes case like this. I feel like I lived through the case. I felt the emotions. I felt the weight of responsibility. I don't know where I heard about this book, it had been sitting in my wishlist for years. So glad I decided to pick it up.

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