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Jan Schlichtmann:
Experts have testified in this court that your land, your fifteen acres is the most grotesquely polluted land in all of New England and you have no idea how it got that way? John Riley:
No. Jan Schlichtmann:
Does it upset you to learn that? John Riley:
Very much so. Jan Schlichtmann:
Why? John Riley:
My factory is the oldest surviving business in Woburn, when the other tanners moved out, I stayed even though that was a very big financial burden. I stay because Woburn is my home That land has been in my family for three generations. That land to me is "hallow ground," so if you asked me if someone came onto that and desecrated it, a land that a part of a town that I love my answer to your question is "yes"
Experts have testified in this court that your land, your fifteen acres is the most grotesquely polluted land in all of New England and you have no idea how it got that way? John Riley:
No. Jan Schlichtmann:
Does it upset you to learn that? John Riley:
Very much so. Jan Schlichtmann:
Why? John Riley:
My factory is the oldest surviving business in Woburn, when the other tanners moved out, I stayed even though that was a very big financial burden. I stay because Woburn is my home That land has been in my family for three generations. That land to me is "hallow ground," so if you asked me if someone came onto that and desecrated it, a land that a part of a town that I love my answer to your question is "yes"
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Mr Riley experts have testified in this court
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that your land your 15 acres
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is the most grotesquely polluted land in New England
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You have no idea how that happened
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No sir Does it upset you to learn this
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Very much so Really Why
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And one last thing
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unless you know exactly what the answer is
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never ever ask a witness why
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Never
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Movie Summary
A tenacious lawyer takes on a case involving a major company responsible for causing several people to be diagnosed with leukemia due to the town's water supply being contaminated, at the risk of bankrupting his firm and career.
