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I'm never going to be believed? >> good point and good question, the argument is you are going to have to -- this will be a bellwether case where people understand that notwithstanding the peer pressure, the person involved, you have to bring these charges forward, a lot of states change their laws regarding when they can report these accidents, and how long is the statute of limitation withstand it. if we be fair both ways, the hardest thing to do for a defendant is to cross-examine these individuals. there is no police record or documentation, so basically the victim has basically the contro...

Guess by so why is there so much concern right seville this is the first federal jury decision against fire the last one was a california state case likewise the jury found there against monsanto what's interesting is that this was considered a bellwether case for hundreds of other federal cases against ones onto that is when you have many people saying the same thing oftentimes the court will stu's one case that it believes represents all the others so it's maybe a common complaint common evidence a common legal theory so it's sort of an average case that they take they try and see what happe...

A company faces hundreds maybe even thousands of cases against it the judge will often pick one case and say this is the one that's what we're going to use retest the merits were to see how that goes and then we'll produce the others afterwards what was interesting about this case is first of all it's the second case to go to trial i think you mentioned there was another case in august of last year that was in state court in california the first federal trial the federal judge said this will be a bellwether case going forward what was interesting is it was actually separate into two phases one...

Plunging this morning in the first minutes of trading here in frankfurt the share price lost more than ten percent because of course a huge amount of damages for by air is now a possibility we have to take into consideration that this is a so-called bellwether case which means we're not only talking about one man getting cancer and suing buyer the judge in this courtroom in san francisco has more than seven hundred cases more than seven hundred files on his table where other gardeners other farmers are suing buyer and of course there are eleven thousand more cases all over the united states pe...

Financial damages. for more i'm here with the w.'s stephen beardsley from the business desk good morning stephen morning ron this looks like a bellwether case doesn't it that if intentionally could cost triple digit figures for buyers yeah it's going to be expensive and this is actually a bellwether case that's a legal term it's often used in product liability cases like this when a company faces hundreds maybe even thousands of cases against that the judge will often pick one case and say this is the one that's where we're going to test the merits were to see how that goes and then we'll prod...