GM and Ford, they get nailed after eleven or twelve pickups blow up, right? These clowns...
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Lawyer: The unlimited checkbook. That's how Big Tobacco wins every time on everything, they spend you to death. Six hundred million a year in outside legal - Chadbourne-Park, uh, Ken Starr's firm, Kirkland & Ellis? Listen: GM and Ford, they get nailed after eleven or twelve pickups blow up, right? These clowns have never, I mean EVER...
John Harris: Not even once.
Lawyer: - not even with hundreds of thousands dying each year from an illness related to their product, have EVER lost a personal injury lawsuit! On this case, they'll issue gag orders, sue for breach, anticipatory breach, enjoin him, you, us, his pet dog, the dog's veterinarian, tie 'em up in litigation for 10 or 15 years, I'm telling you, they bat a thousand every time! He knows that, that's why he's not gonna talk to you
John Harris: Not even once.
Lawyer: - not even with hundreds of thousands dying each year from an illness related to their product, have EVER lost a personal injury lawsuit! On this case, they'll issue gag orders, sue for breach, anticipatory breach, enjoin him, you, us, his pet dog, the dog's veterinarian, tie 'em up in litigation for 10 or 15 years, I'm telling you, they bat a thousand every time! He knows that, that's why he's not gonna talk to you
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The unlimited checkbook
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That's how Big Tobacco wins every time on everything
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They spend you to death
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600 million a year in outside legal
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Chadbourne Parke Ken Starr's firm Kirkland and Ellis
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Listen GM and Ford they get nailed after 11 or 12 pickups blow up right
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These clowns have never ever MAN Not even once
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Not even with hundreds of thousands dying each year
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from an illness related to their product have ever lost a personal injury lawsuit
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On this case they'll issue gag orders sue for breach anticipatory breach
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enjoin him you us his pet dog the dog's veterinarian
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tie 'em up in litigation for 10 or 15 years
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I'm telling you they bat a thousand every time
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He knows that That's why he's not gonna talk to you
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Movie Summary
Tells the true story of a 60 Minutes television series exposé of the tobacco industry, as seen through the eyes of a real tobacco executive, Jeffrey Wigand.
