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FILE NAME Johnson & Johnson JAJ
DATE 2025 Sept 25
DOC JAJ225
DOCUMENT DESCRIPTION Legal - Testimony of Barry Castleman
Casaretto Case Casaretto v &
Barry Castleman Comments - Legal - 2025 Sept. 25 Castleman testimony as fact witness Casaretto Broward Co. FL
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IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE 17TH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT
IN AND FOR BROWARD COUNTY FLORIDA CASE NO 18-028502
ALBERTO CASARETTO JR as Personal
Representative of the Estate of
Alberto A. Casaretto Plaintiffs
JOHNSON & JOHNSON JOHNSON & JOHNSON
CONSUMER INC a JOHNSON & JOHNSON
CONSUMER COMPANIES INC PUBLIX
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SUPERMARKETS INC CVS HEALTH CORP
and ECKERD CORPORATION OF FLORIDA INC
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Defendants
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TRANSCRIPT OF JURY TRIAL PROCEEDINGS
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BROWARD COUNTY COURTHOUSE
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201 SOUTHEAST 6TH STREET
FORT LAUDERDALE FL
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Thursday September 25 2025
9:30 a.m. -
2:43 p.m.
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The entitled cause came on for trial
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before the Honorable Martin Bidwill Circuit Court
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Judge taken before Vanessa Obas RPR and Notary
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Public in and for the State of Florida at Large
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APPEARANCES
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ATTORNEYS ON BEHALF OF THE PLAINTIFF
KELLEY UUSTAL LAW FIRM
Cristina M. Pierson Esq
Cmp@kulaw.com
Charles Scott Esq
John J. Uustal Esq
Jju@kulaw.com
500 North Federal
Highway
Suite 200
Fort Lauderdale 954 522-6601
FL 33301
LEVIN PAPANTONIO PROCTOR BUCHANAN O'BRIEN BARR & MOUGEY
P.A
Christopher V. Tisi Esq
10
316 South Baylen Street
Suite 600
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Pensacola FL 32502
850 435-7000
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Ctisi@levinlaw.com
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ATTORNEYS ON BEHALF OF THE DEFENDANTS
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NELSON MULLINS RILEY & SCARBOROUGH
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Michael Brown Esq
One Financial Center
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Suite 3500
Boston MA 02111
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Mike.brown@nelsonmullins.com Mike.brown@nelsonmullins.com
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NELSON MULLINS RILEY & SCARBOROUGH
Scott Richman Esq
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100 S Charles Street
Suite 1600
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Baltimore MD 21201
443 392-9432
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Scott.richman@nelsonmullins.com
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NELSON MULLINS RILEY & SCARBOROUGH
Kayla Quintana Esq
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2 S. Biscayne Boulevard
21st Floor
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Miami FL 33131
305 373-9412
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Kayla.quintana@nelsonmullins.com Kayla.quintana@nelsonmullins.com
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SHOOK HARDY & BACON LLP Ryan Cobbs Esq
201 S Biscayne Boulevard
Suite 3200
Miami FL 33131
Rcobbs@shb.com
ALSO PRESENT
THOMAS C. RUKAJ ESQUIRE TAYLOR BAYARD ESQUIRE
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TESTIMONY OF DR BARRY R. CASTLEMAN
DIRECT EXAMINATION BY MR TISI EXAMINATION BY MS QUINTANA REDIRECT EXAMINATION BY MR TISI
CERTIFICATE OF REPORTER
EXHIBITS
DESCRIPTION
Plaintiff's Exhibit Number 453
Document
Plaintiff's Exhibit Number 434
Document
Plaintiff's Exhibit Number 436
Document
Plaintiff's Exhibit Number 744
Document
Plaintiff's Exhibit Number 934
Document
Plaintiff's Exhibit Number 1033
Document
Plaintiff's Exhibit Number 1104
Document
Plaintiff's Exhibit Number 1683
Document
Plaintiff's Exhibit Number 1688
Document
Plaintiff's Exhibit Number 2561
Document
Plaintiff's Exhibit Number 619
Document
Plaintiff's Exhibit Number 45
Document
Plaintiff's Exhibit Number 41
Document
Plaintiff's Exhibit Number 231
Document
Plaintiff's Exhibit Number 285
Document
Plaintiff's Exhibit Number 585
Document
Plaintiff's Exhibit Number 1179
Document
Plaintiff's Exhibit Number 1202
Document
Plaintiff's Exhibit Number 1357
Document
Plaintiff's Exhibit Number 1422
Document
Plaintiff's Exhibit Number 1679
Document
Plaintiff's Exhibit Number 2574
Document
Plaintiff's Exhibit Number 2613
Document
Plaintiff's Exhibit Number 2619
Document
Plaintiff's Exhibit Number 2661
Document
Plaintiff's Exhibit Number 2878
Document
Plaintiff's Exhibit Number 3359
Document
Plaintiff's Exhibit Number 3429
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PROCEEDINGS
KAEKKKKKAK
THE COURT all need to get chopping
There's not that
I overruled most of the
objections which we
I don't know if you gave
those to me
I didn't get the PDF At some point
we'll have to copy this
MR RUKAJ
Judge you have rulings on it
We
could just give it to our tech people to start
applying them
THE COURT
Okay
So maybe you can copy it for
each other
I need it on the Court
But I just
wrote right on the paper
so
--
MR RUKAJ
Okay
THE COURT
I've got one of each
Two for each
depo and one is on the original designations and
then one's on the counter
So if you have a
question let me know As I said very few of them
were sustained
MR RUKAJ
Okay
THE COURT
Okay
Thereupon a recess was taken after which the
proceedings continued as follows
THE COURT Is everybody ready to go in just a
few moments
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Plaintiffs
MS PIERSON
Yes Your Honor
THE COURT
Okay
I got you the documents on
the depos Everybody's got those
MS QUINTANA
Yes Your Honor
Thank you
THE COURT Are you copying from each other
because that's effectively my ruling
MR RUKAJ
Judge we're cutting the tape now
and I believe that -- rightly so I think everybody will need to review the final cut before we play it
THE COURT
Okay
MR RUKAJ
But it shouldn't take that long
THE COURT
So I just want to -- I gave it to
both sides collectively here but I don't know if I
didn't keep it You're good
MR RUKAJ
I gave them the original
We have
a scanned copy now
THE COURT
First
MR RUKAJ let's --
If you need the originals back
THE COURT
I don't know
I do not need them
back and I'm going to be in the process when we
unless I need to look at this along the way
I
guess I'll keep it today but -- because you're
going to try and play them both today I think
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right
Or at least - -
MR RUKAJ
That's ideal for us Judge
MS PIERSON
Yes Your Honor
THE COURT
But then when I'm done with these
depos I'm going to give you all these binders back
So I don't have to take custody of those for
perpetuity
MR RUKAJ
Understood
Thank you Judge
THE COURT
All right
I'll just be back in
five minutes and we'll continue
Thank you
MS QUINTANA
Thank you Your Honor
THE COURT
Thank you
Thereupon a recess was taken after which the
proceedings continued as follows
THE COURT
You may be seated
Thank you
All right Vanessa are you ready
THE COURT REPORTER
Yes Your Honor
THE COURT
All right
So we're on the record
in the case of --
Vanessa I don't know have you been here yet in this trial
THE COURT REPORTER
No.
THE COURT
So we'll have everybody make their
appearances
So we'll start with counsel for the plaintiff
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MR UUSTAL
John Uustal on behalf of the
plaintiff
MS PIERSON
Cristina Pierson on behalf of the
plaintiff
Good morning
MS PAPANTONIO
Sara Papantonio on behalf of
the plaintiff
THE COURT
Good morning
Thank you
And for defense
MS QUINTANA
Good morning Your Honor
Quintana on behalf of the Johnson & Johnson
defendants
Kayla
MR BROWN
Good morning Your Honor
Mike
Brown on behalf of the Johnson & Johnson defendants
MR RUKAJ
Good morning Your Honor
Thomas
Rukaj on behalf of the Johnson & Johnson defendants
THE COURT
All right
Thank you
So is the plaintiff ready to continue
MR UUSTAL
Yeah
If you remember we have
some documents we're going to move into evidence
THE COURT
Yeah
MR UUSTAL
I think they're mostly without
objection but there's a couple we have to argue
THE COURT Okay All right
MR UUSTAL
So should I just say them one by
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one
MS PIERSON
Yeah you could go one by one
THE COURT
Do you have an exhibit list or what
did they give you
MS PIERSON
Oh yes I'm sorry Your Honor
We have the printed exhibit list for the Court
THE COURT
Okay
MS PIERSON
I apologize that it is so
lengthy
THE COURT
Looks like a phonebook
MS PIERSON
Yeah
And we could do it
sided if you prefer but I don't know if you
guys like sided
THE COURT
No.
I don't like sided
actually So thank you
So one of you -- do you want to work from it
THE CLERK
Thank you
MR UUSTAL
So if it's okay I'll announce the
number and move it into evidence and -- without
more and then if they agree -- until or if they
object then we'll hear the objection
THE COURT
Sure
MR UUSTAL
Okay
So the plaintiff moves into
evidence Plaintiff's Exhibit 453 for identification
THE COURT
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Are you going to like circle those
THE CLERK
Yes
When they're ready to get --
THE COURT
Okay
MR UUSTAL
We have copies to be marked if
that's what the Court prefers
THE COURT
Yeah
So if you have copies or --
MS PAPANTONIO
I will go through this and
then I'll give you all of the copies at the end
THE COURT
Yeah
--
so go through your
yeah
I
agree with you
Just go through and do that and
then we can catch up with the housekeeping on it
later
MR UUSTAL
Yes sir
MS QUINTANA Defense has no objection to
Plaintiff's Exhibit 453
MR UUSTAL
The plaintiff moves in Plaintiff's
Exhibit 434 for identification
THE COURT
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MR UUSTAL
Yes sir
MS QUINTANA Defense has no objection to
Plaintiff's Exhibit 434
MR UUSTAL into evidence
436 for identification we move
MS QUINTANA No objection Your Honor
THE COURT
So what was the first one
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MS PAPANTONIO
453
THE COURT
453 is received in evidence without
objection
434 is received without objection
436 is received without objection
Plaintiff's Exhibit Number 453 Document was
received in Evidence
Plaintiff's Exhibit Number 434 Document was
received in Evidence
Plaintiff's Exhibit Number 436 Document was
received in Evidence
MR UUSTAL
The plaintiffs move in 619 for
identification
MS QUINTANA Your Honor defendants object to this document This is a transcript that
Dr. Castleman wrote from a call that he had with
Johnson & Johnson
Johnson & Johnson never saw this
document
There's no & Bates stamp
It was never
provided to Johnson & Johnson at the time
I have no objection to Dr. Castleman testifying
about the call that he had with Mr. Semple but I do
have an objection to the actual document coming in
THE COURT
Okay
Can I see it
MR UUSTAL
Oh yes sir
THE COURT Okay Your position Mr. Uustal
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MR UUSTAL
Well first it is an ancient
record
It is a business record of Dr. Castleman
and we agree that this is not in J's files but
other entities can have business records and --
THE COURT What is his entity
MR UUSTAL
Well you mean like his business
We can ask him and lay the foundation for that
But
he was working at the time for --
THE COURT
So she's objecting
I'm not going
to rule on it at this moment
I'll allow you to lay
a predicate and then we'll see where you are on
this
MR UUSTAL
Yes sir
THE COURT
I'm not going to just receive it
without further testimony
MR UUSTAL Yes Judge
THE COURT Unless it's not objected to which
it says
MR UUSTAL
Plaintiff's 744 for
identification we move into evidence
MS QUINTANA No objection Your Honor
THE COURT
Plaintiff's 744 will be received
without objection Plaintiff's Exhibit Number 744 Document was
received in Evidence
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MR UUSTAL
Plaintiff's 934 for
identification we move into evidence
MS QUINTANA So Judge I have no objection
to this document coming into evidence
I do have an
objection to them using it with Dr. Castleman I
don't know if you want to hear that now or if you
want to wait until he testifies
THE COURT
I'll just wait until there's a
question and you object to it
MS QUINTANA Okay
THE COURT You have no objection to receiving
it in evidence
MS QUINTANA
Correct
THE COURT
And the number was 934
MS QUINTANA
Yes Your Honor
THE COURT
934 is received into evidence
without objection Plaintiff's Exhibit Number 934 Document was
received in Evidence
MR UUSTAL
The plaintiff moves 1033 for
identification into evidence
MS QUINTANA No objection Your Honor
THE COURT
Plaintiff's 1033 is received in
evidence without objection
Plaintiff's Exhibit Number 1033 Document was
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received in Evidence
MR UUSTAL
The plaintiff moves 1104 for
identification into evidence
MS QUINTANA No objection Your Honor
THE COURT
Plaintiff's 1104 is received in
evidence without objection
Plaintiff's Exhibit Number 1104 Document was
received in Evidence
MR UUSTAL
Plaintiffs move 1683 for
identification into evidence
MS QUINTANA No objection Your Honor
THE COURT
Plaintiff's 1683 is received into
evidence without objection
Plaintiff's Exhibit Number 1683 Document was
received in Evidence
MR UUSTAL
1688 for ID we would move into
evidence
MS QUINTANA
So Judge I don't have an
objection to the actual letter that was written by
Johnson & Johnson on Page 2.
I would object to the
Castleman file -- like document that's attached to
the front
I don't know what that is but the
actual letter I have no objection to
THE COURT
Okay
MR UUSTAL
We'll pull the first page off
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THE COURT
Okay
MS QUINTANA
Yeah
Yeah
THE COURT
So 1688 would be received as
agreed
MS QUINTANA
Yes
Plaintiff's Exhibit Number 1688 Document was
received in Evidence
THE COURT
Can you wait where you are one
moment
I've got to take a phone call
MS QUINTANA
Of course Your Honor
Thereupon a recess was taken after which the
following proceedings were had
THE COURT
You can all be seated
I apologize to you
All right
So where did we leave off
MR UUSTAL
We're almost done
We've got
three
We moved in Plaintiff's 2561 for ID
MS QUINTANA
So again Your Honor I have no
objection to this document coming into evidence H
do have an objection to it being used with Dr.
Castleman
THE COURT
Okay
2561 is received in evidence
without objection and without prejudice to making
your objections sort of in passing would help
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Plaintiff's Exhibit Number 2561 Document was
received in Evidence
MR UUSTAL
3409 for ID we move into
evidence
MS QUINTANA Your Honor defendants do object
to 3409 as -- on grounds of hearsay relevance
90.403 bolstering and improper opinion
THE COURT
Okay
MR UUSTAL
We would --
THE COURT
Can I see it
MR UUSTAL
Oh yes sir
We would be willing to offer it simply as
notice with the limiting instruction that the Court
desires that J has notice of these things Judge
rather than for truth of the matter asserted
THE COURT
So this is a report of a hearing of
the Senate Committee and of Congress in 1973
MR UUSTAL Right
THE COURT
Okay
MS QUINTANA
Your Honor there has been no
evidence presented that Johnson & Johnson had notice
of this hearing or was at this hearing or has any
notice of the contents within the Senate hearing
transcript
THE COURT
Okay
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MR UUSTAL Judge it might be useful then to argue the last document before we rule on this because that is a document showing they did have
notice of this
THE COURT
now
Okay
So I'll reserve on this for
Go ahead
MR UUSTAL
Okay
for ID into evidence
The plaintiffs move 3414
MS QUINTANA
Your Honor we do have an
objection as it coming in as substantive evidence
We have no objection to this document coming in --
this document as to notice to Johnson & Johnson
It's a third document that was in J's files MR UUSTAL We don't object to that being
limited for the use --
THE COURT
Okay
So I'll receive 3414 without
objection
MS QUINTANA
I do disagree Your Honor that
this article provides notice to Johnson & Johnson of
the contents of the Committee on Congress for the
United States Senate this Senate hearing transcript
that Your Honor received which was Plaintiff's
Exhibit 3409
MR UUSTAL And just for clarity --
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THE COURT
In all these years nobody ever
asked a corporate rep about this report
MR UUSTAL
That's a good question
I don't
know
Whose is it
THE COURT
And this
MR TISI J
It was not -- you're talking about
THE COURT
Well I mean you're used to us
contending that it's admissible
MR TISI
No but we already --
THE COURT At minimum because it provides
notice
She's saying well they never had notice
of it
I'm just wondering if --
MR TISI
Yeah it was not
THE COURT
-- no one ever asked the corporate
rep about it
MR TISI
It was not Your Honor
But we did
argue this issue the other day when we were talking
about motions in limine on Dr. Castleman
THE COURT
huh
MR TISI
He will testify that -- if you look
at the actual Washington Post article that was
circulated it was all the scientists that they
believe was dealing with that at the company at the
time
And he referred to in the article and it
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shows that they were not only aware of the hearing but they were aware of the talc aspect of the hearing because if you look on the second page of the article they underline the talc and asbestos
issue
THE COURT
So this document which is 3414
came out of the J files
MR TISI
Correct
MR UUSTAL
Yes sir
THE COURT
Okay
MR UUSTAL
And those are J scientists whose
names are written on it that it was distributed to
THE COURT
That is right
MR TISI And they happened to be the J
scientists that Dr. Castleman was speaking to in
this timeframe
THE COURT
Okay
MS QUINTANA And Judge I have the
transcript where Mr. Tisi said that he does not
intend to use this document with Dr. Castleman
We
said that at the hearing on the motion in limine
--
Regardless
so if you look
the date of this
article is February 24th 1973. Dr. Castleman
testified on February 23rd 1973.
It wasn't
received in Johnson & Johnson's files until
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March 2nd 1973 and there's no indication that after receiving this document Johnson & Johnson
went and obtained the Senate hearing transcript which back in the 1970s would have been much more
difficult to do than it is now
So there's just no evidence that Johnson &
Johnson had notice of the contents in the Senate
hearing transcript I don't disagree that they had
notice of the contents in the Washington Post
article which was found in our files but it does
not suggest that Johnson & Johnson has notice of the
entire hearing transcript which also includes
articles and books written by experts which would
be separate hearsay on their own
THE COURT
So I'm going to reserve on the
hearing report
I've got to look at that a little
closer
MR UUSTAL
Yes sir
THE COURT
So can I hang on to it for now
MR UUSTAL
Yes sir
And then --
THE COURT
Give this --
MR UUSTAL
But
could I take
--
yeah
then I
can give them all to the clerk what we have
THE COURT
Okay
MR TISI
To be clear Your Honor I just
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would like maybe to put up a portion of the -- I do
intend to use that document
I don't remember the
context -- content -- context in which I said -- and
I don't have it here --
THE COURT article
You intend to use the newspaper
MR TISI
I do intend to say -- no I will
proffer what I intend to say
Are these the scientists she was dealing
with -- with the Johnson & Johnson are they listed
on the side
Some of them were
But if this is
referring to a hearing that you testified to at the request of the United States Senate yes -- yes it
does
I mean it's basically -- I'm trying to
establish the predicate for the notice that
counsel's talking about
So I do intend to do that
THE COURT
So the notice issue
-
you
know
I
guess it's at what level of generality do I need
to
--
MR TISI
Do they need it --
THE COURT
By notice I mean do they know
there was a hearing
MR TISI
Well do they know --
THE COURT
Do they know where or when it ended
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up in the report I mean I
--
MR TISI
Well I mean it's -- Your Honor I
mean, I think this is an important point These
names
and -- the reason why I have the easel out
here I'm going to write these names down
These
names are people that the jury is going to hear
constantly throughout this trial
THE COURT No no I'm just struggling -- and
I get that
And I understand what you intend to do
And that document is in evidence right now
MR TISI Right
THE COURT But I'm just struggling with the
admissibility of this
MR TISI
Yeah I'm not going to look at
the -- there is a small excerpt of what
Dr. Castleman testified to and what he communicated
to the world candidly I will provide that so it's
not the whole thing And I'm happy to give you that
excerpt that we're actually going to use with him
THE COURT
Do you want to show that to us
or
--
MR TISI
Yes
THE COURT
It's direct now that I have the
whole thing
You can tell me what page it is
MR TISI
It's Pages --
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MS PAPANTONIO
So yes Your Honor there's
no page numbers but if you go to the top of the
document --
THE COURT
In the report
MS PAPANTONIO
Yes sir
Page 123 and 171 through 173
THE COURT
So I've got 123 and then you said
171 through
--
MR TISI
-- 173
THE COURT
Okay
I got it
MR TISI
And I have the sections that I was
going to ask him about Your Honor
I'll highlight
it and I can show it to you if that makes it easy
THE COURT
Sure
Show Ms. Quintana
MS QUINTANA
So are you talking about the
transcript from the hearing
MR TISI
Yes
MS QUINTANA
Are you on Page 123
MR TISI
Yeah
I'll show him
THE COURT Because when you say you're going to show it to him what do you intend to do with it
MR TISI I'm just going to ask Well is
this what -- was this what you communicated
MS QUINTANA And Judge I have a strenuous
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objection to this as Dr. Castleman is not an expert
in this case
He is a fact witness
MR TISI Right
MS QUINTANA
And if Johnson & Johnson wasn't
present for this hearing what he said at the hearing and what he said to the public at large is
entirely irrelevant especially due to his testimony
as a fact witness
MR TISI
Your Honor as a fact witness he
can testify to what he said and I think that's
within the scope of your ruling The article
establishes that they either knew about it or should
have known about it They actually highlighted
sections dealing with talc and -- and lung disease
So it's really
you can
- there's a
sufficient foundation for allowing him to say what
they knew or should have known based upon what is in
that Washington Post article
MS QUINTANA
Judge what Dr. Castleman thinks
that Johnson & Johnson knew or should have known at
the time is irrelevant to his testimony as a fact
witness
MR TISI
I'm not going to ask him what they
knew or should have known
I think the jury can
make that inference based upon listening to his
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testimony seeing the documents in the file seeing
the information that Dr. Castleman -- the people who
he was communicating with over four years in the
company
There's enough evidence that the jury can
infer that
You can certainly argue that they didn't know
and they didn't have evidence But there's enough
evidence to get it in in my opinion
MS QUINTANA
I disagree Your Honor
I
don't --
THE COURT
So what is this
Is this his
testimony MR TISI This is his testimony
talked about --
And he
THE COURT Well I mean I'm looking at it
like in the first one here
MR TISI
Yeah
THE COURT
I mean that seems to run afoul of
my ruling that there's no opinions
MR TISI
Okay
THE COURT
I think
I mean he's saying --
MR TISI
Well
he's
not
--
offering
THE COURT
-- you know that a certain level
of exposures will subject people to increased mortality from mesothelioma
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MR TISI
He didn't
- I'm not asking what his
current opinions are
The fact that they knew that
there was information in the public that -- I'm
sorry
I'm standing too close
THE COURT No you're all right
MR TISI
The information in the public at the
time that there was -- that level exposure
might cause mesothelioma is noticed
I don't care
if there's a limiting instruction He's going to
offer his opinion based upon what he knows now
This is what he said in public which J was
aware of
The other things I was going to ask him about
-- there are two comments in here
One comment
is -- I'm sorry I can't find the page
One comment is one of the things that should be
done is stop use of talc containing even trace
amounts of asbestos where the product fibers can
become airborne
That's an important -- that was
something that was said at the time
And the other thing that was said -- and this
came directly from Johnson -- you'll see that this
is reflected in the information gotten directly from
Johnson & Johnson
Before 1865 when Johnson &
Johnson began talc manufacture babies were commonly
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dusted with cornstarch
The safe substitute is
still available at fourth the cost of talc
Out of the public it's something that -- that
the company should have been aware of
And clearly
it's reflected in the documents that they were
considering cornstarch at the time
THE COURT
So if I admit it are you
suggesting that you have no objection to a limiting
instruction
MR TISI
Of course not
THE COURT
What should that say
MR TISI
That this was -- it's not being
offered as an opinion
It was offered as something
that J had notice of
THE COURT
Okay
MR TISI
Or may have had notice of based upon
information that --
MS QUINTANA A couple of things Judge
that -- one of the things that should be done is to
stop the use of talc
Even trace amounts of
asbestos -- with a trace amount of asbestos can
become airborne
I mean that is blank an expert opinion
His entire testimony at the Senate hearing was his
opinions at the time
I mean had they wanted him
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to testify to this they should have made him
state expert which they did not
As
to
the
--
Page
173
where
it
talks
about
Johnson & Johnson this is part of his book
Asbestos and You which he actually blank
testified in his deposition he never gave a copy to
Johnson & Johnson
So there's absolutely no
evidence that Johnson & Johnson knew about his book
should have known about his book
Again the only thing that they knew or should
have known is -- would be what is -- what is
actually written in the article that they received on March 2nd 1973
I disagree that Dr. Castleman can testify about this article because it is an article and he is not
an expert
He has no idea what Johnson & Johnson
knew or didn't know about this article on March 2nd
1973.
It wasn't him who sent it to them
It was
found in Johnson & Johnson's files
So again
anything he said at the Senate hearing is -- is
opinion testimony that's reserved for an expert and
Your Honor has already ruled that Dr. Castleman
cannot testify as to his opinions He should be
limited to testify as to the facts and his
conversations with Johnson & Johnson at the time
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MR TISI
Your Honor just I want to bring
this for a landing and make this clear
I am not going to ask him what his opinion are
today based upon everything he knows and what he
is -- what he's saying today
What is important is -- and one of the things
the jury is going to be called upon to decide is
whether or not what we say should have been done was
reasonable at the time
The fact that people were
out in public was communicating with the -- you
know the United States Senate the information is
in the record in the United States Senate clearly
available to -- to everybody
They knew about this
hearing
It's -- it's him not testifying to what
the state of the article was as an expert
He's testifying to what he was saying at the
time
THE COURT
Okay
MR TISI And that's why this is not an expert
opinion
THE COURT
Okay
So I'm just going to -- I'm
not receiving this report in at this point and
you've now educated me on the looming evidentiary
issue that will come and I'll just await your
questions and objections and I'll make rulings on
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it
If I do admit testimony from Dr. Castleman
that during a Senate hearing in 1973 he said X Y
or Z and it falls on the side of you know
arguably being something that a lay witness would
not otherwise be saying in a credible way I
would -- I'll allow it but I will give an
instruction
But I want to hear the exact
questions
MR TISI
Thank you Your Honor
THE COURT An instruction would basically say
you know that this testimony about what
Dr. Castleman said in 1973 is being offered and put
before you for the very limited purpose to determine
whether or not -- or what Johnson & Johnson knew or
should have known at the time
MR TISI Honor
All right
I'm okay with that Your
THE COURT
And you're not to -- Dr. Castleman
has not been presented as to what's referred to as
an expert witness and his opinions should not be
considered in that way at that point in time
MS QUINTANA We would just object Your
Honor
THE COURT
How about the instruction
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Anything else
MS QUINTANA
I think I would object to the
instruction only because I object to the testimony
THE COURT
Right
I understand
But do you have any -- just with an
understanding that I'm preserving that In my
opinion I don't think you need to do anything else
MS QUINTANA Okay
THE COURT
I'm going to give some instruction
if I allow it
If you want to be heard on the
language of it you can just come sidebar okay
MS QUINTANA Understood Your Honor
MR UUSTAL
I have the ones the Court has
admitted
I'd like to share with counsel and then
give to the clerk
THE COURT
Okay
MR UUSTAL
May I hand them to the clerk
THE COURT
Of course yes
Thank you
I think this is the plaintiff's opening
MR UUSTAL
Oh yes
THE COURT
I'll keep that but I don't need
the binder They just don't sit well
- sat well
MR UUSTAL
Yes sir
MR TISI Would you prefer things in this
Redweld if it makes it easier
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THE COURT
That's fine
You mean like a --
MR TISI
You know like one of those little
things that makes it easy for you to keep track of
it
I'd be happy to give it in a Redweld
THE COURT
Like one of these
MR TISI
Yes
THE COURT
Yeah that's fine too
I'm going
to give you back as much as I can that you gave me
because I don't need it back here because it just
accumulates
All right
then
What else
Everybody ready to go
MR UUSTAL
Yes sir
THE COURT
Dr. Castleman I presume is close
at hand
MR UUSTAL
I believe he's on a bench outside
I'll check
MR TISI
You want him here
THE COURT
Well I want to make sure he's
sitting right out there in case he doesn't walk
away
MS QUINTANA
I apologize Your Honor
I have
one more thing to raise before Dr. Castleman comes
in
I had seen earlier on the desk there was
the 2009 bottle of Johnson's baby powder in a sealed
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container
At this time -- I don't see it there anymore
but at this time I would object to it being shown to the jury at all today without a foundation having been laid as to the admissibility of the bottle or
the authentication or foundation of the bottle
MR UUSTAL
We're not intending to use it
today
It's not the 2009 bottle
MS QUINTANA
Oh
MR UUSTAL
It's just a bottle
MS QUINTANA Okay
MR UUSTAL
And we do -- it's just
demonstrative
I believe we will at some point but
not today
MS QUINTANA Okay As long as it's not being
shown today
--
Judge
THE COURT
The record will reflect Mr. Uustal
just took it out of the box
It was put away
MS QUINTANA
Understood Your Honor
Thank
you
MR TISI
And Your Honor just for -- H
personally think it's easier for the jury to see on
the big screen
So we're going to pull the screen
down if you don't mind unless you prefer them not
to
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THE COURT
I'm not following you
I'm sorry
MR TISI
We're going to refer -- for
publication of exhibits we're going to use the
screen that we used for openings yesterday
THE COURT
Yes
Where is it
Oh it's right
here
MR TISI
It's right here
Do you mind if our
tech person brings it in
THE COURT No not at all Absolutely
And what we'll do if you don't mind if we
could -- see this monitor
Let's put that on that
table there because it blocks the view
I don't
know how tall Mr. Castleman is
MR TISI
Would you like me to have
Dr. Castleman come in and sit or do you want me to
call him in Judge I don't know how you'd prefer
to do that
THE COURT
No you can bring him in and
sit down
You don't need comments
It's the first
one
Let's go to the -- pomp and circumstance if
you will
So they understand how it works
MR RUKAJ And Judge there is one thing we
just want to put on the record logistically about
some witnesses
I had a conversation with opposing
counsel this morning about the Dr. Moline issue
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And just so the Court is aware the deposition that was noticed for tomorrow will not be going
forward tomorrow
THE COURT
Okay
MR RUKAJ The parties have agreed there's no
need to serve an additional subpoena to secure the
witness at trial
And at this time she has not
been withdrawn as a witness
So this is all without prejudice to give the
plaintiffs and Dr. Moline --
THE COURT
Just giving me an update
MR RUKAJ Exactly
THE COURT
Thank you
I appreciate it
MS PIERSON For the clerk we just realized
that there's some pages that had misnumbered
exhibits on the back so we're going to fix that and
give you a new exhibit list
THE CLERK
Okay
MS PIERSON
We'll fix that over lunch and get
it back to you
THE CLERK
And I also need 934
MS PIERSON
Okay
MS PAPANTONIO
Okay
reserved
I have that as
MR UUSTAL
I'm sorry
You said it comes in
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but you just didn't want to use it with this
witness
MS QUINTANA
Yes
THE BAILIFF Jury entering
The jury panel entered the courtroom after
which the following proceedings were had
THE COURT
All right
You can all be seated
and welcome back members of the jury
All of the jurors are present We thank you
again for your service
We're ready to proceed As I indicated to you
yesterday the plaintiff will begin by presenting
evidence in the matter
And I'll turn to counsel
for the plaintiff to announce the plaintiff's first
witness
MR UUSTAL
Thank you Your Honor
At this
time we would like to call Dr. Barry Castleman to
the stand
He is seated
THE COURT the stand
Dr. Castleman has made his way to
Good morning sir
hand
Would you raise your right
Do you solemnly swear or affirm the testimony you're about to give is the truth the whole truth
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and nothing but the truth
THE WITNESS
Yes Your Honor
THEREUPON
DR BARRY R. CASTLEMAN
was called as a witness and having first been duly
sworn testified as follows
THE COURT
All right
You can have a seat
And if -- kindly you don't need to be right on
that microphone but it will definitely help the
cause
And would you tell us your full name and spell
your last name
THE WITNESS My name is Barry R. Castleman
N
THE COURT
Thank you
You may inquire Mr. Tisi
MR TISI
Thank you very much Your Honor
DIRECT EXAMINATION
BY MR TISI
Q.
Where do you live Dr. Castleman
A.
I live in Maryland
Q.
Did you come down from Maryland to appear
before our jury in this case in the trial against
Johnson & Johnson
A.
Yes
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Q.
And briefly tell us who you are a little bit
about yourself so that the jury understands who you
are
A.
I'm a public health worker My field is toxic
substances control
I've been an independent
consultant
I've worked for numerous governmental
agencies and national organizations I've also been
involved in litigation over asbestos
Q.
Okay All right
So just
- did we pay for you to come down
here Did we pay your hourly rate to come down here
A.
Yes
Q.
Okay Do you understand that you're here to
talk to our jury about things that happened in the early
1970s related to Johnson & Johnson its talcum powder
products and asbestos
A.
Yes
Q.
Okay I'm going to limit my questions to you
specifically to what you saw and what you did related to
those three topics asbestos Johnson's talcum powder
products and Johnson & Johnson in the time frame of
1971 until 1975
Do you understand that
A.
I do
Q.
Okay And during that time did you
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communicate with scientists and others at Johnson &
Johnson on those issues
A.
Yes
Q.
Okay During that time frame did Johnson &
Johnson scientists make representations to you about
asbestos and cosmetic talc
A.
They did
Q.
Okay During that time were you asked to
testify before the United States Senate on issues
relating to asbestos including talc
MS QUINTANA Objection Outside the scope
Hearsay Relevance
THE COURT
Overruled
THE WITNESS
Yes
BY MR TISI
Q.
Okay
Now I know it may seem a little
impolite and I don't usually ask this question but
would you tell us how old you are today as you sit
here
A.
I'm 79
Q.
To give our jury a perspective of how long ago
this was could you tell us how old you were between the
years of 1971 to 1975
A.
24 to 28
Q.
Okay And that was over half a century ago
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A.
It was
Q.
Okay
Let's go back to that time frame
Do you recall what you were doing
professionally during that time frame
A.
Well in 1971 I was a graduate student at the
Johns Hopkins School of -- well at the Johns Hopkins
Department of Environmental Engineering and I was doing
a master's degree on air pollution control and related
scientific subjects and I was writing my doctorate
thesis about the health effects of asbestos
And in the
course of this I wrote to people at Johnson & Johnson
in July of 1971
Q.
We're going to talk about some of that
correspondence in a moment
But just to be clear you were interested in
the question of asbestos and you contacted Johnson &
Johnson because of that true
MS QUINTANA Objection Leading
THE COURT Rephrase
MR TISI
Yeah
BY MR TI I
Q.
Is the reason why you contacted Johnson &
Johnson because of the work you were studying at Johns
Hopkins
A.
Yes
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Q.
Okay And you mentioned July of 1971. Was
that the first time you recall speaking to Johnson -- or
communicating with Johnson & Johnson
A.
It is
Q.
Okay You're our first witness to testify and
I just want to orient our jury a little bit
Briefly and for context could you tell the
members of the jury what you understood at the time
about asbestos that caused you to call Johnson &
Johnson
MS QUINTANA Relevance
Objection
Outside the scope
MR TISI It's just really just to orient the
jury Your Honor
THE COURT
Okay
Overruled at this point
Let's see where it goes
THE WITNESS
I had been reading the
literature --
MS QUINTANA Objection
THE WITNESS
-- the historic literature about
the health effects of asbestos
And in the course
of that I had come across the literature linking
asbestos and talc
MS QUINTANA strike
Objection Your Honor
Move to
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THE COURT
Overruled
Denied
BY MR TISI
Q.
Okay Now you mentioned in 1971 you wrote a
letter to Johnson & Johnson regarding Johnson's baby
powder We have previously admitted Exhibit Number 434
and we're going to put it on the screen
I believe --
do you need a paper copy or you can look at it right on
the screen there
A.
Well we'll see when the screen comes on
Q.
Okay
THE COURT
There we go
THE WITNESS
I think I can do all right with
the screen
MR TISI
Oh I see it
BY MR TISI
Q.
Is this the letter you wrote to Johnson &
Johnson in your handwriting in July of 1971
A.
It is
Q.
Okay And do you
personally wrote
A.
It is
- is this a letter you
Q.
Okay And if you look at the topics from John
-- you listed your address as Johns Hopkins University
Department of Environmental Engineering
Do you see that
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A.
Yes
Q.
Is that where you were at the time
A.
It is
Q.
And you wrote a letter to Johnson & Johnson
Can you read the first sentence for me please
A.
I am presently finishing a literature review
on the health effects of asbestos
Q.
And that's -- was that why you were calling
Johnson & Johnson at the time
A.
Yes
Q.
Okay
And did you consider -- when you were
communicating with them did you consider that a
potential problem
A.
Yes
MS QUINTANA Objection
THE COURT
Overruled
Outside the scope
BY MR TISI
Q.
Please go to the second sentence
Would you read that as well
A.
In assessing the justification of current
calls for removal of asbestos from talcum powder there
are several things I wish to know
Q.
Okay
I want to ask you that -- ask you a
question
The predicate for your question was that there
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were calls to remove asbestos from talcum powder at the
time in 1971
What was your basis for saying that to Johnson
& Johnson at the time
MS QUINTANA Objection
THE COURT
Overruled
Outside the scope
THE WITNESS
Well this issue had been raised
by the leading medical authority on asbestos in the
United States Dr. Irving Selikoff
And there had even been an article in the New
York Times
I don't know about -- exactly about the
New York Times article's timing
But in any case I
knew that there was concern publicly expressed about
asbestos contamination of talc
MS QUINTANA
Objection Your Honor
Move to
strike Outside the scope of his opinions
THE COURT
Overruled
BY MR TISI
Q.
Number -- the first question that you wrote --
it's a little bit cut off here but I think we can
figure it out
Would you read for the members of the jury what
you said
A.
How long have cosmetic talcs in particular
Johnson's powder been in widespread public use I
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think is what that sentence says
Q.
Why were you interested in that
A.
Well I wanted to know from a public health
point of view how far back this issue went in terms of
the public use of talcum powders
Q.
You wrote a second question
Would you read for the members of the jury what
you wrote
A.
What would be involved in terms of cost plant
process changes and removing the asbestos fibers from
talc in which I believe it naturally occurs
Q.
I'd like to pause here for a moment and ask
what -- what you meant by that
A.
Well I was trained as a chemical engineer and
I was interested in whether they had some kind of a --
process for assuring that any asbestos that was in their
talc was removed prior to its marketing to consumers
Q.
Okay
The next question in this - -this letter
says what
A.
Do all talcum powders contain asbestos And
among those which do what is the range of tremolite
content
Q.
Now up until this point in this letter you
were using the word asbestos
Here you're talking about tremolite Would you
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tell us the members of the jury were those interchangeable Why did you say that
MS QUINTANA Objection Outside the scope
Your Honor
THE COURT
Overruled
THE WITNESS Tremolite is a variety of asbestos and it was something I had seen in the literature being associated with talcum powder
BY MR TISI
Q.
Okay Did you
-
A.
I'm sorry
Being associated with talc that was
mined in New York State
Q.
Did you talk about -- when you wrote this in
this time frame when you used the word tremolite did
you feel the need when you were communicating with
colleagues to say the word tremolite asbestos
A.
No.
Q.
Why
A.
Well there are six forms of asbestos --
MS QUINTANA Objection Outside the scope
Your Honor
THE COURT
Overruled
THE WITNESS
There were six forms of asbestos
that were commonly referred to and people writing about the mineralogy and the health effects of
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asbestos and tremolite was one of the six
BY MR TISI
Q.
Right But did you feel like you had to say
tremolite versus tremolite asbestos versus tremolite
fibers versus asbestiform tremolite
You know those forms right
those terms before
You've heard
A.
I've heard those terms more recently
But back
in 1971 tremolite was -- to me meant a form of asbestos
and nothing else
MS QUINTANA Objection Move to strike based
on his response
THE COURT
Overruled
BY MR TISI
Q.
Okay
Now the last sentence that you say is
Any information -- or actually why don't you read it
for the members of the jury
THE COURT
It went down
There it goes
THE WITNESS
I close by saying any
information you can provide will be greatly
appreciated in making a fair appraisal of this
problem
BY MR TISI
Q.
You used the word problem and you put it in
quotes
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Why did you put the problem in quotes
Dr. Castleman
A.
Well I wasn't -- I guess it was a polite way
of asking them and a scientific way of saying I haven't
come to any definite conclusions about this matter
That's why I'm asking you these questions
So it might be a problem It might not be a
problem
That's the sense of the quotes around the word
problem
Q.
Now I'm going to show you a document Exhibit
Number -- the next exhibit which is entered into
evidence already Exhibit Number 10 -- I'm sorry --
1033. And it's entitled Asbestos Inquiry Mr. Barry
Castleman
Do you see it
A.
Yes
Q.
Okay This has been entered into evidence and
this is not a document -- is this a document you had in
your normal course of business or something you've seen
recently
A.
That's something that I saw for the first time
recently -- in recent years
Q.
Okay The only thing I'm going to ask you
about this is this is an internal Johnson & Johnson
document and it describes you - it says and I'll read
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it for you From the tone of this letter it seems
clear that Mr. Castleman has scientific knowledge far
beyond the normal type of inquiry we have received from
the public This inquiry appears to require a more
scientific response than we have been using in handling
consumer correspondence
Therefore we believe this letter should be
handled by somebody in R
Do you see that
A.
Yes
Down to the last sentence which wasn't
blown up but yes I recall that being in the letter --
in this document
Q.
I'm just going to ask you just for members of
the jury is that an accurate description of who you
were at the time
Were you somebody who had scientific knowledge beyond the normal type of inquiry that people generally
had
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Overruled
Bolstering
THE WITNESS
Yes
BY MR TISI
Q.
Okay Did you receive a letter from Johnson &
Johnson in response to your inquiry
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A.
I did
Q.
Okay
I'm going to show you that letter
It's
been entered into evidence
It's Exhibit Number 436
Do you see that
A.
Yes
Q.
Okay
And it says -- is this a letter you
received in the normal course of communicating with
Johnson & Johnson
A.
Yes it is
Q.
Okay
It's written by a gentleman by the name
of Thomas Shelley Ph.D.
And the jury may see some of these names SO
I'm going to write them down
MR TISI
Just writing the name
MS QUINTANA Okay
BY MR TISI
Q.
He's
- what did you understand Dr. Shelley
-
who Dr. Shelley was
A.
He was the director of the Central Research
Laboratories of the corporation
Q.
Okay
And there were other people on this --
on this letter
Do you see a Dr. Hildick
A.
Yes
Q.
Okay
Then that was a CD so I'm going to
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write Hildick And that's a name that's going to come up again in a minute
And a Dr. Nashid
Do you see that
A.
Yes
Q.
Did you have any understanding as to whether or
not these people on this letter -- or did you come to
learn the people on this letter were scientists at
Johnson & Johnson
A.
I would later come to learn that yes
Q.
Okay
Would you read the -- number one in the
letter that you got back from Johnson & Johnson
A.
The use of talc as a cosmetic extends far back
in historical time More specifically Johnson &
Johnson has marketed baby powder since 1895.
Q.
And that was one -- was that one of the
questions you asked them in your original letter
A.
Yeah it was
Q.
Okay
The second is where I want to spend a
little time Doctor
Would you read for the record what they told
you at that time in August of 1971
A.
We have no asbestos in our baby powder
/
prove this we have had extensive analytical work
carried out by mineralogists at the Colorado School of
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Mines by McCrone Laboratories in Chicago and by
Professor Fred Pooley at the University of Wales in
Cardiff Professor Pooley is associated with one of the
teaching scientific groups studying the relationship of
asbestos and other inorganic particles to cancer
Q.
Now they used the word no asbestos
Do you see that word
A.
Yes
We have no asbestos in our baby powder
What did you understand when they made that
representation to you no asbestos to mean
A.
None
Zero
Nothing
A.
Nothing
Q.
Okay
A.
No asbestos at all
Q.
Okay And they told you that the proof of this
was that they had these other labs that said that
correct
A.
Yes
Q.
Did they ever share with you what those other
labs found
A.
No they didn't
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Relevance
Outside the scope of his testimony as a
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fact witness
THE COURT
Overruled
THE WITNESS
No.
BY MR TISI
Q.
Did they ever share with you what that was
A.
No.
Q.
Okay Now did you continue to communicate
with Johnson & Johnson after this -- receiving this
letter
A.
Yes
Q.
Okay
I'd like to show you what has been
admitted as Exhibit Number 1688.
It's a letter from
March of 1972 and the judge has admitted this into
evidence
Do you see that
A.
Yes
Q.
Okay
It starts out by saying First I must
apologize in the delay in responding to your inquiry
about Johnson's baby powder
Having read this letter -- have you seen this
letter and looked at this letter before coming to court
today
A.
Yes
Q.
Okay Having read this letter you understand
that you wrote another letter to Johnson & Johnson
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which resulted in them writing you back
A.
Yes And I think it must have been a postcard
Q.
Okay And you made an inquiry according to
this letter -- given the totality of this letter do you
have an understanding or appreciation of generally what
that inquiry would have been
A.
Generally But I don't know exactly what I
wrote on the -- on the postcard
Q.
What do you think - -based upon the response
you got what do you think the inquiry would have been
Would it have been a continuation of what you were
talking about with Dr. Shelley
A.
Yes
MS QUINTANA Objection
THE COURT
Overruled
Speculation
THE WITNESS
Yes
BY MR TISI
Q. letter
Well let me just ask you the question briefly What were you trying to do here in this other
A.
Well I was following up on the response I had
received and asking some more questions about the same
general subject
Q.
Were you continuing to have concern about the
safety of talc with respect to asbestos
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A.
Yes
Q.
Okay
Now it says to - -the next
the -- next
paragraph we'll blow it up
It says To answer your
question
- would you read the rest
A.
Johnson & Johnson takes great care in the
formulation and production of all its products In the
case of Johnson's baby powder the talc comes from our
own mines specifically selected for the quality of
their talc This grade talc is processed through
repeated washings in order to free it of impurities
Under careful analysis by independent experts the
finished product has been shown to be free of asbestos
Q.
Okay
Now this is from a Steven Sawchuk
So
I'm going to write his name down too
This is the second letter where Johnson &
Johnson assured you that the mines were clean and there
was no baby powder and it had been proven
Do you see that
A.
Yes
0
Okay And when they said to you that the
product has been shown to be free of asbestos what did
you take that to mean
A.
That it was totally free of asbestos
There
was no asbestos in it
Q.
Well did you understand there could be some
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asbestos but not enough
I mean was there any
threshold that you interpreted that when you got that in
1972
A.
No.
MS QUINTANA Objection Relevance
Speculation Improper opinion
THE COURT
Overruled
THE WITNESS
No.
BY MR TISI
Q.
Okay So just so the jury understands when
they said the words Our product has been shown to be
free of asbestos your interpretation of that was what
A.
Completely free of asbestos
Q.
And with respect to the mines what did you
understand their representation to you to be
A.
Well that they had assured that this mine was
in a form -- a type of talc or a deposit of talc that
was free of asbestos
Q.
Okay Now in this letter unlike the last
letter they say careful analysis by independent
experts They mentioned Colorado School of Mines in
the prior letter McCrone and Dr. Pooley
Did you have any understanding based upon your
communications in 1972 what these quote independent
experts -- who they were
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A.
I can only tell what the letter contained
I
couldn't really go any further in understanding whether
they were referring to any other independent experts or
the same ones that had been referred to in the first
letter that actually named several laboratories
Q.
At this time when you were following up in
1972 did J offer to share with you as somebody who
was interested the testing results that they had gotten
from these independent experts
A.
No.
MS QUINTANA Objection
opinion
THE COURT
Overruled
Relevance
Improper
THE WITNESS
No.
BY MR TISI
Q.
Okay As somebody who was studying -- now at
this time - -and pardon me You had actually gone to work - -at this time
were you working or were you still a graduate student
A.
I had just started work a couple months
--
right before the date of this letter as an air pollution
control official for the Baldwin County Health
Department
Q.
Okay So you were working in public health at
the time
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A.
Yes This is my first employment in the field
of public health
Q.
Okay As somebody at that time if you had
been told something along the lines of an analysis by
independent experts had shown that Johnson & Johnson
talc had been shown to have some asbestos but not a lot
would that have been different in your mind
MS QUINTANA Objection Relevance Improper
opinion Outside the scope
THE COURT
On that question I'll overrule
You can answer
THE WITNESS
Yes I would have been alarmed if
they said there was any asbestos in the talc
BY MR TISI
Q.
Okay Would that be meaningfully different
for -- would that have been meaningfully different at
the time in 1972 --
A.
Yes
Q.
-- to you
A.
I mean asbestos was a causing
substance
Even a small amount of it would be a danger
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Honor
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Overruled
THE WITNESS
It would have been a danger
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especially for people exposed at such an early age
as infants
BY MR TISI
Q.
I would like to show you Exhibit Number 1104
which is a letter that you wrote again after getting
two letters of assurance from Johnson & Johnson
This
one is in August of 1972
Is this your handwriting
previously admitted into evidence
Is this your handwriting
A.
Yes
This has been
Q.
Okay
You start by saying I was - -would
you read the first part of what you wrote here
A.
When I was doing research on asbestos at Johns
Hopkins I asked you some questions about Johnson's talc
and you sent a very informative reply
It is apparent
that Johnson's talc is free of asbestos
Q.
Now
when you -
--
are
you
referring to
the
two
other letters that you wrote to them and the two
responses you got from Johnson & Johnson
A.
Yes
Q.
Okay Now when you said it was apparent that
Johnson & Johnson's talc is free of asbestos what did
you base that on
A.
On what they had told me
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Q.
Okay Did you believe them at the time
MS QUINTANA Objection Outside the scope of
his opinion Relevance And in violation of the
motion in limine
THE COURT
I'm going to sustain that
objection
MR TISI
Okay
BY MR TISI
Q.
You go on to say
the -- next sentence it says
What I am interested in knowing is whether talc per se
could enhance the likelihood of cancer development in
individuals who are occupationally exposed
Do you see that
A.
Yes
Okay And you brought up a study by Kleinfeld
that you brought to their attention
Do you see that
A.
Yes
Q.
Okay
What was the purpose -- what was the
Kleinfeld study that you were bringing to the -- that
you were notifying them about at the time
MS QUINTANA Objection Outside the scope
Improper opinion Relevance
THE COURT
Overruled
THE WITNESS
Kleinfeld was reporting on New
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York State talc miners that were the subject of study by government officials and Kleinfeld was a government official for the State of New York
And they found that there was an excess rate of lung cancer -- four times the expected rate of lung cancer in these talc miners compared to men in New York State generally of the same age distribution
And that there were also -- at least had one case
each of pleural and peritoneal mesothelioma found in these miners who were exposed to a talc that was
described as a tremolitic talc
BY MR TISI
Q.
Again that term tremolite were you raising
again a question about tremolite in talc
A.
Yes
Q.
Okay Now to be fair the Kleinfeld you
mentioned had 30 percent -- that there was a 30 percent
asbestos correct
A.
Of two types of asbestos tremolite and
anthophyllite
Q.
Right
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Outside the scope Improper opinion
THE COURT
Overruled
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BY MR TISI
Q.
So would that have been different in terms of
the amount of asbestos but the issue was still the
same
A.
I don't understand the question
Q.
I'm sorry
It was a bad question and I
apologize
If this was -- you mentioned here that there
was 30 percent asbestos in these talcs in the New York
mine
A.
Yes
2
Whatever the -- whatever the number was --
because you understand mines could have different
amounts correct You understood that at the time
right
A.
Sure
Q.
Okay Was the larger point you were raising is
relating to talc and asbestos and reraising that
question
A.
Well I was concerned that talc itself could
cause cancer
And it wasn't clear from this report
whether talc played a role or whether it was just the
asbestos contaminants in this particular talc --
Q.
Right
A.
- that was causing these excess tests from
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lung cancer and mesothelioma
Q.
Okay
The next thing is it says -- at the very
last paragraph before your signature line the first
sentence that you read there would you tell us what you
said
It beginning It would be --
A.
It would be a great value to provide a
scientific basis for saying whether talc exposure
carries any excess risk of developing cancer
--
Reports
Q.
Don't go to the next sentence
Just that one
sentence
Did you feel it was communicating to them that
there should be -- that there would be value in looking
at this question
A.
Yes
Q.
Okay Next question -- next thing at the very
last part you said Excess lung cancer among workers
with mixed talc asbestos exposure are a cause of concern
but provide no proof of hazard at this time in 1971.
A.
No proof of hazard of talc specifically
Q.
Right
Were you intending that sentence to mean that
if it had asbestos in it it would not be a potential
hazard
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MS QUINTANA
BY MR TISI
Objection
Improper opinion
Q.
What were you intending --
THE COURT
I'm going to sustain that
MR TISI
Yeah
BY MR TISI
Q.
Were you intending that to mean
- what were
you intending it to mean with respect to asbestos if it
was in the talc
A.
Well what I was I think saying here is it
would be nice if we could do a study of a talc that
didn't have any asbestos in it to see if it was also
causing an excess cancer risk in the workers exposed to
it follow it up for a sufficiently long period of time
Q.
Now the next letter that you got is Exhibit
Number 1683 where J responds to you again in August
of 1972
Do you see that
A.
Yes
Now this has been admitted into evidence
And it's -- and it's from a Dr. Shelley
That's the same doctor who originally wrote to you
-
that originally responded to your letter is that right
A.
Yes I think so
Q.
Okay And again he is what What does he
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identify himself as
A.
Director of the Central Research Laboratories
at Johnson & Johnson
Q.
Okay And he referred you to a
Dr. Hildick who we saw as a cc in a prior letter
Do you see that
A.
That's right
Right
And did you get a letter from
Dr. Hildick
A.
I did
Q.
We're going to bring up Exhibit Number 744
which is admitted into evidence and we'll publish it
for the jury
Is this a copy of the letter you got from
Johnson & Johnson in response to the letter that you
wrote
A.
Yes
Okay And it's from Dr. Gavin Hildick
A.
Yes
Q.
Okay And what is his title
A.
If you can show me the second page
Q.
The last
--
yeah
the last page
A.
Director of clinical research at Johnson &
Johnson
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Q.
And there are cc's to this letter
and Dr. Nashid are also cc'd
Dr. Shelley
These are the people with whom you had been
communicating right
A.
Yes
Q.
Okay And the only part of this I'm going to
be asking you about is his response to the issue that
you raised about talc mines that may have asbestos in
them at the Kleinfeld study
Do you see that
A.
Yes
0
Okay
Did he say that he understood that -- he
knew that there -- about the Kleinfeld study
A.
He does
Q.
Okay Would you read for the jury what he said
he was aware of at the time
A.
I mean he cites to publication by Kleinfeld
and even gives the journal by page and year in which the
article appeared in 1967
The publication that you mentioned in your
letter is familiar to us and as you know reports on
the incidence of pulmonary cancer in miners working in
talc mines which contain tremolite and serpentine
Q.
Okay And there's the term tremolite and
serpentine again
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They didn't communicate it to you tremolite
fibers tremolite asbestos or any qualifying language
Everybody knew that when they used the term tremolite
and used -- in this everybody knew they were talking
about asbestos is that true
MS QUINTANA Objection Relevance Improper
opinion Outside the scope
THE COURT
Overruled
THE WITNESS BY MR TISI
That was my understanding yes
Q.
Okay And that was how people actually spoke
at the time
I mean --
A.
Not
--
Q.
-- people who were talking about these
different compounds they didn't say the only way it's
asbes- -- the only way it's tremolite asbestos is if you
use the word asbestos after the word tremolite
MS QUINTANA Objection Relevance
personal knowledge Outside the scope
THE COURT
Overruled
Lacks
THE WITNESS No people weren't going into
that kind of argument back then
BY MR TISI
Q.
Okay
1973 you got a letter from Dr. Nashid
and this is Exhibit 453 which is admitted into
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evidence
We'll stay here for about 30 seconds
Did you get a letter from Dr. Nashid
A.
Yes
0.
Okay
And you had written a letter on
October 30th 1973 correct
A.
That's what he says he was responding to yes
Q.
And we don't have a copy of that letter do we
A.
I don't no
Q.
Okay
And he sent you some information on talc
safety for your review
A.
Yes
Q.
Okay
And so you got a letter from Dr. Nashid
to -- in addition to Dr. Hildick Dr. Shelley and
Dr. Sawchuk correct
A.
Yes
Q.
And then if you would look at Exhibit
Number 619
and -- we're not going to -- we're not going
to publish this yet for the jury
What is Exhibit Number 619
THE COURT Are you bringing it up
MR TISI
Oh I'm sorry
Are you able to show just the witness
No.
Okay please
Your Honor may I approach the witness
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THE COURT
You may
MR TISI I apologize
BY MR TISI
Q.
Without talking about what it is at this point
can you tell me what it represents
In other words
don't talk about the document itself
Just tell me what
it is
A.
Well it's a note that I may have had a
telephone call
Q.
And a telephone call with whom
A.
A telephone call with Bruce Semple of Johnson &
Johnson
Q.
Okay
And was this -- were these notes made
contemporaneous with your call with Dr. Semple
A.
Yes
Q.
Okay Was this kept by you in the normal
course of your work as -- as a consultant and people --
the work that you were doing at the time
A.
Yes
MR TISI
Your Honor at this point I would
like the offer this into evidence
MS QUINTANA Objection as to hearsay Your
Honor and failure to lay a predicate
THE COURT
Can I see it
MR TISI
I can give you my copy Your Honor
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I apologize for the handwriting Your Honor it's not only an ancient document but it is also a communication with an agent of the
defendant
THE COURT
Okay
Give me just a second
I'll overrule the objection We'll receive 619
in evidence
Plaintiff's Exhibit Number 619 Document was
received in Evidence
MR TISI
I'm sorry
May I have my copy back
THE COURT
Yes
MR TISI
Thank you
Let's publish it --
May I publish it for the jury Your Honor
THE COURT
You may
BY MR TISI
Q.
The only thing I would ask -- first of all you
know Dr. Semple worked with Johnson & Johnson
Do you see that
A.
Yes
Q.
Okay
So we added his -- let's add his name to
the list of the people who were contacting you at the
time
Bruce Semple
Did you understand -- did you have an
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understanding of who he was at the company
A.
Well I understood that he was part of the
research group of scientists who worked for Johnson &
Johnson
Q.
So up until this time from 1971 to 1975 you
were communicating -- would it be fair to say you were
communicating fairly regularly with scientists looking
at the question of -- of talc safety
A.
At Johnson & Johnson yes
Q.
At Johnson & Johnson
And Dr.
--
Semple
can you
just
read the last
sentence and tell us what Dr.
--
Semple represent
represented to you at the time
A.
Semple thinks the relative innocuousness of
talc is because of platy morphology that it easily
picked up -- that is easily picked up by the mucous
stream and little is retained in the lungs
Q.
Did he tell you anything about any testing that
had been done on the issue of asbestos at that time
MS QUINTANA Objection Relevance Improper
opinion
THE COURT
Overruled
THE WITNESS think
Not in this phone call I don't
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BY MR TISI
Q.
Okay And you had been speaking to - -to all
of these people from 1971 to 1975
One of the things you were interested in was
whether or not talc did or did not contain asbestos is
that true
A.
Yes
Q.
All right And all during this time frame did
anybody ever tell you that the mines were not clean
Did they tell you that
A.
No.
Q.
Did they ever tell you that the mines -- that
they could not separate out asbestos tremolite from
talc
MS QUINTANA Objection
opinion
THE COURT
Overruled
Relevance
Improper
THE WITNESS BY MR TISI
They did not tell me that
Q.
Did they ever tell you that their laboratories
were finding what -- tremolite in the mines
A.
No.
Q.
Doctor I'm going to show you something that
has been marked into -- into evidence as Exhibit
Number 934
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MR TISI documents - -
Judge this is one of the
MS QUINTANA Judge I'm objecting to it being
shown on the screen
MR TISI
It is something that has been
admitted into evidence Your Honor
It has come in
MS QUINTANA My objection is to it being used
with Dr. Castleman
THE COURT
Is this one page
Can I see it
MS QUINTANA
No this is -- can we come
sidebar Judge
The following discussion was had at sidebar
out of the hearing of the jury panel
THE COURT
How long do you want to process
I'm trying to regulate lunch about --
MS QUINTANA
Less than an hour
THE COURT
Okay
MS QUINTANA My hope is about 30 minutes but
I can't guarantee that
I need to look at some
things based on what came in
THE COURT
So hopefully it might take us an
hour Is everybody all right
MS QUINTANA
Yeah
MR TISI Yeah no problem
THE COURT
You want in limine instructions on
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what I just received there
MS QUINTANA
I do Your Honor
THE COURT Okay All right
MR TISI
Thank you
MS QUINTANA
Thank you
Sidebar concluded
THE COURT
We will take a short break
Someone needs to use the restroom
Ms. Jones take the jury out
Take your notebooks with you
The jury panel left the courtroom after which
the following proceedings were had
THE COURT Okay The jury's out The door's
closed
You may all be seated
Do you need a break Doctor
You probably should step out
THE WITNESS
You don't need me
THE COURT
We don't need you for a bit so
take about five minutes to use the restroom etc.
THE WITNESS
Thank you
THE COURT
May I see it
MS QUINTANA
Sure
So Judge this is an internal Johnson &
Johnson document that they received from McCrone
Laboratories
It's something that Dr. Castleman
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would not have seen or heard at the time from 1971
to 1975. I can anticipate Mr. Tisi's questions based on what he asked in the deposition He's going to ask him you know about this document and
whether Johnson & Johnson ever showed this to him or
told him about it
What Johnson & Johnson did not tell
Dr. Castleman during that time is entirely
irrelevant to his testimony as a fact witness They
had no duty to tell him these things They had
-
you know there's to concealment claim here
There's no concealment claim against Dr. Castleman
This is going to be pure expert opinion testimony
and it's entirely irrelevant to his opinion as a
fact witness
THE COURT
Okay
Before I hear from the
plaintiff let me just read this please
MR TISI Well all I've got to say Judge is
this letter -- this is already in evidence
I think
the jury -- I was only going to ask him to read a
document that is already in evidence
It makes
sense in the context of his testimony
I'm just
publishing the document
I'm not going to ask any
questions about it I think it will be obvious why
I'm asking the question But I think the jury's
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going to be entitled to hear from this perfect
witness to read it to the jury
THE COURT All right
MS QUINTANA
Judge if they want to make this
argument in closing they're able to do that with
this document but I don't think it's proper to put
it in through -- to put this testimony in through
Dr. Castleman who they've identified only as a fact
witness who did not know about this document during
the time that he was communicating with Johnson &
Johnson
And Johnson & Johnson had no -- you know
no obligation to provide this to him
MR TISI With this sole exception being Your
Honor this is one of the very specific laboratories
that I told him they got confirmation of that there
was no asbestos in talc
This document from the laboratory that they told him that they got that information from says something completely different And again I'm not going to ask him any questions other than to have him read it and to identify this as one of the laboratories who they made a representation to him
about
They didn't have a -- whether they had a duty or didn't have a duty they did make a
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representation about this lab
MS QUINTANA
If I could just add Judge then
it's disingenuous because there are thousands of
other McCrone documents and other testing documents
from Johnson & Johnson that are going to come in
throughout this trial that do show that their talc
was free of asbestos
MR TISI Bring them in
MS QUINTANA
I mean I don't want to do that
with Dr. Castleman
I had no intention to do that
today
THE COURT Okay So the objection is
overruled Really at the end of the day this is
boiling down to you want Dr. Castleman to read from
a document that's already in evidence
MR TISI
Correct
THE COURT And that's all you're going to do
MR TISI
That's all I'm going to do
THE COURT
And I'm not going to conclude that
it's you know so far out of the zone of his
testimony that I shouldn't include that
So I'll
note your objections
MR TISI
And there is one other -- I'm going
to only do this with one other document which is
the next document
And I'm sure it's the same --
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it's the same issue And it's really going to be
quick and I'll be done with the direct
MS QUINTANA My objections are the same
THE COURT
So I'll consider those -- what's
the name of the document
MR TISI
We call it the Clean Mines Document
But yes you'll see it
THE COURT
Clean Mines
MS QUINTANA
This one
MR TISI
Yes correct
THE COURT
All right
Does it have a number
MR TISI
It's Exhibit Number 2561 and it's
already been admitted in evidence Again this deals directly with the issues that they discussed
with Dr. Castleman
So if you look at it
-
THE COURT
Okay
So it's in evidence
It's
going to be - -it's proffered that you're going to be using it in the same manner
MR TISI
Correct
THE COURT And I'm going to consider the
defense to raise the same objection
MS QUINTANA
Correct Your Honor
THE COURT And I'll overrule the objection
MR TISI
Thank you very much Your Honor
MS QUINTANA
That's fine
Thank you Judge
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THE COURT All right
direct examination
Where are you in your
MR TISI
I have this and then I was
obviously going to deal with the question of the
congressional testimony and then I'm done
THE COURT Okay So quantify that for me
please
MR TISI
Half hour -- 20 minutes half hour
THE COURT
Okay
So what we'll do then I
guess is just take a minute break
We'll let
whoever needs to use the restroom use the restroom
Then we'll come back and we'll complete his direct If it goes a half an hour I'll probably break for
lunch before --
MS QUINTANA
Honor
Okay
That's perfect Your
MR TISI Honor
Sure
No problem
Thank you Your
THE COURT
Court's in recess until 11:50
MS QUINTANA Okay
THE COURT
Thanks
Thereupon a recess was taken after which the
proceedings continued as follows
THE COURT
You can all be seated
All right Are we ready to continue
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MR TISI
Yes Your Honor
MS QUINTANA
Your Honor I have one more
objection I would just like to put on the record
after I review these letters
THE COURT
Okay
MS QUINTANA
So the letter that Dr. Castleman
received from Johnson & Johnson regarding the
McCrone Laboratories was dated August 2nd 1971
That was the response The document that Mr. Tisi wants to ask him
about now saying that you know Johnson & Johnson
didn't send this to you is dated 1972.
So it
was -- this document was received by Johnson &
Johnson after they wrote Dr. Castleman this letter
And again they had no duty to you know
supplement their response to him
Same with Plaintiff's Exhibit 2561 which is
the Windsor Minerals and Talc document
That
document is dated April 26th 1973.
The document in
which Johnson & Johnson represents to Dr. Castleman
that the talc comes from our own mines and talks
about the quality is March 7th 1972
So both of these documents come after the dates
that Johnson & Johnson had written to Dr. Castleman
on these topics
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MR TISI
Your Honor just to be clear he was
communicating -- I think the record will show he was
communicating constantly with numerous scientists in
this whole timeframe
I'm simply going to ask him
to read a letter that's already in evidence
THE COURT
So that's what I was going back to
what you told me
That's what I thought you told
me
So you're not going to ask
-
you
said
- the
transcript says I'm not going to ask any questions
about it
MR TISI
I'm simply -- I will lay the
foundation
Is this one of the labs that they
talked about
THE COURT
Yes
MR TISI
Is this in the timeframe between '71
and '75
What does it say It's already in evidence
THE COURT And I'll note your objection
Based upon that proffer I'll overrule the objection
and allow you to do that based on your
representation you're not going to be on it
MR TISI
I will not
MS QUINTANA Thank you Judge THE COURT All right We will have the jury
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THE BAILIFF
Yes Judge
THE COURT And once she's getting the jury I
think we have an issue from the jurors
Tammy Castillo
-
MR TISI
I'm sorry
THE COURT
Tammy Castillo is a juror
She's
Juror Number 6.
And she told the court deputy that
she needs to go out of town next Friday
So I guess
she said she didn't think we were going to be in
session on Fridays which to some degree is what she
was told but the -- I think we told them on day one
it was going to be possible on the 3rd
But I'm just letting you know that
I don't
want to get into a big discussion about it right
now
I think you said you wanted to call Dr. Lopes
that day
MR UUSTAL
Yes sir
THE COURT
We will need to address that with
the juror before the end of the day
MR UUSTAL
Okay
MS QUINTANA Your Honor I apologize
have a motion to make at this time
I do
Your Honor the defendants are moving for a
mistrial based on Dr. Castleman's testimony outside
the scope of his opinion
-
or
outside
the
scope
of
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a lay opinion fact witness He's testified to
multiple things that only an expert can testify to
So at this time I'm moving for a mistrial
THE COURT
Okay
That motion is denied
MS PIERSON
Your Honor also I think I had
mentioned there was some mislabeling of some of
the last of the exhibits on the exhibit list
And
we have a list for the clerk
THE COURT
The clerk left
So if we could do
that when she gets back
MS PIERSON
Thank you Your Honor
The jury panel entered the courtroom after
which the following proceedings were had
THE COURT
All right
You can be seated and
welcome back members of the jury
Dr. Castleman is continuing on the witness
stand
I'll remind him he's continuing under oath
At this time Mr. Tisi you may continue with
your direct examination
MR TISI
Thank you
And I'll try -- because
everybody is wanting to get their lunch I'm going
to try to speed it up for you
BY MR TISI
Q.
Doctor I am going to hand you two documents
The first document I'm going to hand you -- or I'm going
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to bring up on the screen is Exhibit 934
Now this is not a document that you saw in
19 -- between 1971 and 1975 is that correct
A.
That's correct
Q.
All right For the record this is a document
from -- to Johnson & Johnson from Walter McCrone and
Associates
Do you see that
A.
Yes
And the date is 1972
Do you see that
A.
Yes
Is that in the time frame that you were having
this forth with scientists at Johnson &
Johnson
A.
Yes
Q.
Okay And this is the laboratory -- I think in
the first letter you got from Johnson & Johnson is this
one of the laboratories they specifically mentioned as
saying that the - -the talc was asbestos
A.
It was one of the laboratories Johnson &
Johnson's letter mentioned in that connection
Q.
Okay All right
And I'm going to ask you simply to read for the
members of the jury what this report says
I'm not
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going to ask you to comment
I'm going to ask you to
read it because it's already in evidence okay
A.
Yes
Q.
All right
If you go to page - -the second
page
In the summary it says -- would you say what --
would you please read what the summary says
A.
Two samples of Johnson & Johnson's baby
powder Batch Number 108T and 109T which correspond to
the samples examined by Professor Seymore C. Druenne of
New York University on behalf of the FDA have been
examined by ray defraction light microscopy
transmission electron microscopy and electron
defraction to determine whether they contain any
asbestiform minerals
Both samples contain an insignificant amount
of tremolite less than .5 percent Neither sample
contains chrysotile
Q.
If you go to the next page in the middle of
the page it says -- under light microscopy there's a
sentence at the end of the paragraph
Would you read it to the members of the jury
A.
The total tremolite content of the two samples
would be approximately 0.5 percent for 108T and 0.2 to
0.3 percent for 109T
Q.
And if you look at the last page it is
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report from - -there's a note from Dr. Nashid
Do you see that
A.
Yes
Q.
Okay
And can you read the last sentence of
that note from Johnson & Johnson
A.
Levels are extremely low but occasionally can
be detected optically This is not new
Q.
Doctor I'm going to hand you another
document -- another document that has been admitted into
evidence
It's Exhibit Number 2561
Do you see that
A.
Yes
Q.
Okay Referring back to your testimony
about -- do you remember what they told you about their
mines and
- and that they were clean
Do you remember that testimony
A.
Yes
Q.
And did they tell you that
A.
They said that their mines were free of
asbestos
Q.
Okay
I'm going to ask you to read -- this is
a memorandum -- an internal memorandum from Johnson &
Johnson
If you would read for me -- read for the
members of the jury what they said on this document
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Point Number 1
A.
It says It is our joint conclusion that we
should not rely on the clean mine approach as a
protective device for baby powder in the current --
thanks -- in the current asbestos or asbestiform
controversy
We believe this mine to be very clean
However we are also confident that fiber forming or
fiber minerals could be found
The usefulness of
the clean mine approach for asbestos only is over
Q.
All right
On the second page there's a
Section B.
Do you see that
A.
Yes
Q.
Okay Would you please read for the members of
the jury what J said internally in 1973 during the
time frame that they were communicating with you
beginning with the phrase Occasionally
A.
If you could blow that up that will be easier
for me
MR TISI
It's right here
Do you see that
At the very bottom of Section B.
THE WITNESS
Thanks
Occasionally trace
quantities of tremolite or actinolite are
identifiable optical microscope and these might be
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classified as asbestos fiber
BY MR TISI
Q.
Lastly on Page 3 would you -- there's a
Section C.
Would you please read for the members of the
jury what they were saying internally in 1973
A.
Cornstarch is obviously another answer
The
product by its very nature does not contain fibers
Furthermore it is simulated by the body
Q.
Okay Now let's switch topics for a minute
and I think I'll be done
You mentioned before that you testified before
Congress in this time frame Would you remember when
that was
A.
Yes
It was in February of 1973
Q.
Okay Before I talk about that I'm going to
show you a document which we've had marked as 3414 and
it's a document that came from Johnson & Johnson's
files
Do you see that at the bottom there's a Johnson
& Johnson Bates number
I'll represent to you that that
indicates it comes from their files
A.
Yes
MS QUINTANA And Your Honor I'm going to renew my objections on this as to outside the scope
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relevance and improper opinion
MR TISI
This concerns --
THE COURT The objection is to him asking Dr. Castleman questions about this document that's
in evidence
MS QUINTANA
Correct Your Honor
THE COURT
Then I'll overrule that objection
BY MR TISI
Q.
On the hand side it says From the desk
of WHS Ashton
Do you see that
A.
Yes
Q.
Okay Now it says to -- they're forwarding
this to a bunch of people including Dr. Shelley
Dr. Nashid and those are people that you were
communicating with at this time correct
A.
Yes
Q.
Those were the scientists that we saw letters
forth from true
A.
Right
Q.
Okay And what is the title of this article
A.
Asbestos Hazards Found Widespread
Q
Okay
Now -- and the date is -- do you see it
A.
February 24th 1973
Q.
Does this concern the hearing that you
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testified to Doctor
A.
Yes
I testified at a -- at a Senate hearing
the day before this appeared
Q.
Okay And in fact your name is actually
mentioned here is that true on the right side
another witness
A.
Yes
Q.
An environmental engineer at the Baltimore
County Department
Do you see that
A.
At the Baltimore County Health Department yes
Q.
And if you go to the next page
- the next page
of that document --
A.
This is another document
MR TISI
This is another document
Okay
BY MR TISI
Yeah
Q.
The article continues and there are hashmarks
do you see that to highlight those two paragraphs
A.
Yes in the margins
Q.
And you can read it but when you see that
what does it say to you
A.
Well it refers to the senator who was
conducting the hearing Senator John V. Tunney from
California acting subcommittee chairman asked whether
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his children should stop blowing up balloons whose
powder inside signify the presence of asbestos fibers
and should he quit using his aftershave talcum powder
Q.
Okay
You mentioned Dr. Selikoff before
What
does this article say Dr. Selikoff replied
A.
Yes it does mean that Dr. Selikoff replied
Emphasizing that the ills from asbestos don't show up
for 20 to 30 years Anything that has asbestos in it
keep it away from your kids
Q.
Okay
So now you testified this - -does this
article -- what does this article suggest the day after
the hearing that the company understood about your
--
that -- about a hearing that happened the day before
MS QUINTANA Objection Relevance Improper
opinion Outside the scope Lack of personal
knowledge Speculation
THE COURT
I'm going to sustain the objection
BY MR TISI
Q.
Okay Doctor did you in fact address and
communicate in that hearing information that you made
public about asbestos in Johnson's baby powder
MS QUINTANA Objection Improper opinion
Hearsay And outside the scope
THE COURT
Overruled
THE WITNESS
In the hearing there was a
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report that I had written that was submitted and made part of the -- the hearing record and the
committee print which included our report called
Asbestos and You and there it was mentioned
that --
MS QUINTANA Your Honor I'm going to object
to him talking about Asbestos and You
MR TISI
It's in the --
MS QUINTANA On the grounds of hearsay
MR TISI
It's in the Senate hearing Your
Honor
MS QUINTANA Which is not in evidence Your
Honor
THE COURT
No I understand
At this point I'm going to overrule your
objection I'm going to find that he can testify
about that
MR TISI
Thank you Your Honor
THE COURT
So if you're going to bring it --
if you're seeking to introduce the document
BY MR TISI
Q.
Doctor I'm going to refer you to Page 173
Can you bring up Exhibit -- I forget where this
exhibit was --
THE COURT No I'm not receiving that into
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evidence That needs to be taken down please
MR TISI
Yeah I apologize
I didn't
-
-
THE COURT
I understand
BY MR TISI
Q.
What did you tell the members of the community
and the Senate at that time
A.
As to talc I said that people should use
cornstarch instead of talc powders
Q.
And this would have been in 1973 when you were
talking to Johnson & Johnson true
A.
Yes
Q.
Did you say anything about -- did you
communicate anything about whether or not even trace
amounts of asbestos was safe
MS QUINTANA Objection Hearsay Relevance Improper opinion Outside the scope of Your Honor's
order
THE COURT
Overruled
THE WITNESS
Yes
I -- I said that even trace
amounts of asbestos would
would render the
product hazardous
BY MR TISI
Q.
Okay And did you say anything about whether
or not products that could be airborne present a
problem
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A.
Well if there was any possibility of asbestos
released from the talc products that they shouldn't be
used
That was the sense of what I -- what I wrote
Q.
I also -- before I sit down I asked you early
on whether we paid for you to come down here -- we paid
your normally hourly rate to give your fact testimony
here
Would you tell the members of the jury what
you've been paid
A.
The hourly rate is 400
MR TISI
Okay
Thank you very much
I don't
have any other questions at this time
THE COURT All right Members of the jury
before we begin the examination of the
defense we're going to break for lunch
I will -- can you maybe come sidebar
Ms. Quintana please
MS QUINTANA
Yes Your Honor
THE COURT
Let me just get an update
You can
pass those notebooks in
I'm going to collect
those
Thank you
The following discussion was had at sidebar
out of the hearing of the jury panel
THE COURT
How long do you think cross is
going to be because I'm trying to regulate lunch
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without limiting you in any way
MS QUINTANA
Less than an hour
THE COURT
Okay
MS QUINTANA And I hope it's about
30 minutes but I can't guarantee that
THE COURT
huh
MS QUINTANA
I need to look at some things
based on what came in
THE COURT
So I'm going to break for an hour
Is everybody all right with that
MR TISI Yeah no problem
MS QUINTANA
Yeah
THE COURT Secondly do you want a limiting
instruction on what I just received there
MS QUINTANA
I do Your Honor
THE COURT Okay All right Thank you
MS QUINTANA
Thank you
The following proceedings were had in the
presence of the jury panel
THE COURT
Members of the jury before I send
you to lunch let me just give you an instruction
as I may do from time to time throughout the trial
as to evidence that's been presented before the
jury You just heard testimony from Dr. Castleman
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about what he says he said in a U.S. Senate hearing
in the 1970s
The Court received that evidence for the
purpose of the notice And you're not to consider
it
Dr. Castleman has not been brought to court
today as an expert witness able to give opinions
about these matters
He was brought and his
testimony presented by the plaintiff simply as a
fact witness about what he said that day and you're
to consider that only in that way
Anything else from the plaintiff
MR TISI
No Your Honor
Thank you very
much
THE COURT
From the defense
MS QUINTANA
Not at this time Your Honor
THE COURT All right
Have a nice lunch
I
will see you at 1:10 please
The jury left the courtroom after which the
following proceedings were had
THE COURT
Okay
You can be seated
Dr. Castleman you're excused We'll see you
back in an hour
He's on examination now SO
it would seem that he should not be talking to
anyone unless there's --
MR TISI
I will not other than just to tell
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him where the food is
THE COURT
Of course
Great
All right
Doctor we'll see you in an hour
okay
THE WITNESS
Thank you Your Honor
THE COURT
Thank you
Anything else from the plaintiff
MR TISI
No Your Honor
THE COURT
The defense
MS QUINTANA
No Your Honor
THE COURT
Okay
Thank you very much
Court's in recess till 1:10
Thereupon a lunch recess was taken after
which the proceedings continued as follows
THE COURT
You can be seated thank you
We're back on the record
The parties are present
Is the plaintiff ready to proceed
MR TISI
Yes Your Honor
THE COURT Defense ready to proceed
MS QUINTANA
Yes Your Honor
I have two
things that I would like to do before the jury comes
back in Your Honor
THE COURT
Okay
MS QUINTANA
The first is I would like to
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preadmit one exhibit
It is Plaintiff's
Exhibit 452.
It is a letter from Dr. Castleman to
Johnson & Johnson on October 30th 1973
THE COURT
Okay
MR TISI
We have no objection Your Honor
THE COURT
All right
So that's 452.
You
just want to leave it as Plaintiff's 452
Is
that --
MR TISI That's fine Judge
MR UUSTAL
Yeah because otherwise it
would -- we would object if the defense starts
moving in exhibits But since that's our exhibit
we don't care
THE COURT
You'll agree to it
MR UUSTAL
Yeah
THE COURT All right MR UUSTAL Because it's a plaintiffs exhibit THE COURT Okay All right MS QUINTANA The other thing Your Honor is
that we looked at the realtime over lunch and we
would ask that Your Honor would expand the limiting
instruction to Dr. Castleman's testimony in general
not just to the Congressional hearing given that he
has given quite a few -- what I interpret as expert
opinion
So we would just ask that --
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THE COURT
Write out exactly what you want me
to say
MR TISI
Your Honor we would object to that
THE COURT
Well let's see exactly what she
wants to say
MR TISI
Okay
But I was really careful in
saying what you meant at the time what you said at
the time I wasn't asking what his opinions are
now
They're very different
THE COURT
I understand
But I'm --
MS QUINTANA
I just have to find it in the
realtime Your Honor
It was your exact limiting
instruction
Just that it's not limited to his
testimony at the Congressional hearing It's his
testimony as a whole that he's not an expert
THE COURT
Go ahead
MR TISI
Your Honor I just feel like that
--
doing that would tip the balance You know it's
almost like an admonishment as opposed to an
instruction When you do something twice it taints
the testimony when you do it that way
THE COURT Okay Well I'm going to
- if the
defense wants a specific instruction you can
propose it
But if I deny it we'll make a record
of that
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I do -- I don't have the language in front of me on the realtime but I do believe I said that
he's been called here as a fact witness
MR TISI
Correct
THE COURT
Not as an expert witness
MR TISI
Thank you
THE COURT
And I understand the defense point
but I'm not so sure I need to put anything else
But I'm happy to consider any specific language that
you want me to instruct the jury on okay
MS QUINTANA Understood Your Honor
THE COURT
Why don't you get going on the
cross and then we can --
MS QUINTANA
THE COURT
Okay Yeah that's perfect
do that in the next recess if
that's okay
MS QUINTANA Okay
THE COURT
So with that are you ready
MS QUINTANA
I am Your Honor
THE COURT And so we'll have the jury please
Doctor you're ready right
THE WITNESS
Yes Your Honor
THE COURT
Okay
Thank you
MS QUINTANA I'm just going to flip this so
that it's clean if that's okay with you
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MR TISI
Of course
Of course
THE COURT
And we need to talk to that juror
I don't know
Have you had any discussion about
that I don't know what sort of flexibility you
have
MR UUSTAL
That's a very difficult one
We
would at least like to find out you know what
exactly she's asking for
THE COURT
Well she did the - -and I'm going
to do that
But she told the deputy that I think
she's leaving Thursday night for an town work
trip or something but we'll follow up at the next
break okay
So I'll talk to her about it privately
The jury panel entered the courtroom after
which the following proceedings were had
THE COURT
Okay
You can all be seated
And welcome back members of the jury
We're ready to continue All the jurors are
present Dr. Castleman is continuing on the stand
under oath
The plaintiff's counsel Mr. Tisi completed his direct examination so now I'll turn to defense counsel Ms. Quintana for examination
You may proceed when you're ready
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MS QUINTANA
Thank you Your Honor
EXAMINATIO EXAMIN NATION
BY MS QUINTANA
Q.
Good afternoon Dr. Castleman
A.
Good afternoon
Q.
We have not met before
My name is Kayla
Quintana
It's nice to meet you
A.
All right
Q.
Now you testified on direct examination about
several letters that you exchanged between yourself and
Johnson & Johnson in the 1970s correct
A.
Right
Q.
I want to talk a little bit about what you were
doing at the time that you wrote those letters
You graduated college in 1968 is that correct
A.
Yes
Q.
And so at the time that you wrote your first
letter to Johnson & Johnson in 1971 you were in grad
school
A.
That's right
Q.
Okay And at that time you had a degree in
engineering is that correct
A.
Right
Q.
So I want to look through some of those
letters
I know we looked through them earlier and the
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jury has already seen them
MS QUINTANA
Lawton can you pull up Tab 1
BY MS QUINTANA
Q.
Now this was admitted as Plaintiff's Exhibit
434
This is the first letter that you wrote to
Johnson & Johnson dated July 25th 1971 is that
correct
A.
Yes
Q.
Okay And this is handwritten is that right
A.
Yes
Q.
It looks like you wrote the letter on
July 25th 1971 and then it was received by Johnson &
Johnson on July 27th is that correct
A.
Yes
Q.
And at the time that you wrote this letter you
were a graduate student at Johns Hopkins University in
Baltimore Maryland
A.
Yes
0.
You wrote to Johnson & Johnson in part because
you were curious about talc in asbestos right
A.
Yes
Q.
And you believed that Johnson & Johnson was
knowledgeable regarding talc
A.
Yes
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Q.
Okay In this letter in July of 1971 you
asked Johnson & Johnson about the potential
contamination of asbestos in talcum powder right
A.
Yes
Q.
Now let's look at another document
going to be --
MS QUINTANA
Tab 3 Lawton
BY MS QUINTANA
This is
2
This has been already introduced as Plaintiff's
Exhibit 1033
This is a Johnson & Johnson internal memo
dated July 28th 1971
Do you see that
A.
Yes
Q.
Now to be fair this memo was not sent to you
correct
A.
Correct
Q.
This was Johnson & Johnson talking internally
amongst themselves
A.
Yes
Q.
Now in this memo Johnson & Johnson is
discussing your letter that they had just received a few
days earlier right
A.
Right
Q.
And Mr. Tyrell acknowledges that you seemed to
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have scientific knowledge far beyond the normal type of
inquiry that they receive from the public
A.
That's what it says
Q.
So then he escalated the letter to Johnson &
Johnson's R department to provide you with a more
scientific response correct
A.
Yes
Q.
R stands for research and development to
your knowledge is that right
A.
Yes
Q.
So three days after Johnson & Johnson received
your letter they internally escalate the letter to
their D department so that you would be provided with
a scientific response true
A.
Yes
Q.
A few days later Johnson & Johnson sent you a
response is that correct
A.
Yes
MS QUINTANA
Lawton can we pull up Tab
Number 4.
This is Plaintiff's Exhibit 436
BY MS QUINTANA
Q.
Do you see what's on the screen Dr. Castleman
A.
Yes
Q.
So let's take a look at Johnson & Johnson's
response to you
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It's dated August 2nd 1971 right
A.
Yes
Q.
So this was only a few days after you wrote to
them originally correct
MR TISI
I'm sorry
What exhibit are we
looking at
MS QUINTANA
It's Plaintiff's 436
MR TISI
I'm sorry
Thank you
MS QUINTANA Yeah no problem
BY MS QUINTANA
Q.
This letter was written by Thomas H. Shelley
Ph.D correct
A.
Yes
Q.
And he was the director of Central Research
Laboratories at the time
A.
Yes
Q.
So as requested in the internal memorandum that
we looked at Johnson & Johnson had a specialist from
their research and development department provide you
with a more scientific response correct
A.
Yes
Q.
In this response Dr. Shelley responded to your
questions regarding potential asbestos contamination in
Johnson's baby powder true
A.
Yes
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Q.
And let's take a look at what Dr. Shelley said
Dr. Shelley tells you that there is no asbestos
in Johnson's baby powder right
A.
Right
Q.
And to support this statement he cites some
work performed by scientists at the Colorado School of
Mines
A.
Yes
Q.
At McCrone Laboratories
A.
Yes
Q.
And Professor Fred Pooley at the University of
Wales correct
A.
Yes
Q.
So a little over a week after Johnson & Johnson
received your letter they responded by answering your
questions and providing scientific support for their
responses correct
A.
Yes
Q.
Now following this letter at some point
again during that time period you write to Johnson &
Johnson right
A.
Right
Q.
And I don't believe that we have a copy of that
correspondence is that true
A.
I don't
And I haven't seen it in -
-
produced
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in the litigation either
Q.
Okay
So you don't know exactly what you would
have said right
A.
I don't know exactly what I wrote to them
either
Q.
And you believe -- I think you testified on
direct examination that it was like a postcard
A.
Evidently from the response to -- to the
second communication it appears that it was a postcard
Q.
Okay
So let's look at that response
MS QUINTANA Lawton this is going to be
Tab 6
BY MS QUINTANA
Q.
And this is Plaintiff's Exhibit 1688
So this letter is written on March 7th 1972
Do you see that
A.
Yes
Q.
And it's written by Steven Sawchuk M.D. who
was an associate director of clinical research
A.
That's what it says
Q.
And to your understanding M.D. stands for
medical doctor correct
A.
Yes
Q.
Dr. Sawchuk first apologizes for the delay in
responding to your inquiry right
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A.
Yes
Q.
And then explains that your card was lost in
interoffice transit but they recovered it shortly
before his response to you right
A.
Right
Q.
He then tells you that for Johnson's baby
powder the talc comes from Johnson & Johnson's own
mines right
A.
Yes
Q.
Which he says were specifically selected for
the quality of their talc
A.
That's what he wrote
Q.
Dr. Sawchuk then explains to you the method
used by Johnson & Johnson to wash its talc to ensure it
is pure correct
A.
He makes reference to that yes
Q.
And he informs you that under careful analysis
by independent experts the finished product has been
shown to be free of asbestos
Did I read that correctly
A.
Yes
That's what he wrote
Q.
And now this was in March of 1972 right
A.
Right
Q.
A few months later you write your third letter
to Johnson & Johnson right
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A.
Yes I think so
Q.
And sorry I can pull it up for you
Dr. Castleman
MS QUINTANA
It's Tab 7 Lawton
Plaintiff's Exhibit 1104
And it's
BY MS QUINTANA
Q.
So you write to Dr. Shelley again correct
A.
Yes
Q.
Now let's look at your letter
August 3rd 1972
A.
Yes
This is dated
Q.
You tell Dr. Shelley When I was doing
research on asbestos at Johns Hopkins I asked you some
questions about Johnson's talc and you sent a very
informative reply
Do you see that
A.
Yes
Q.
At this point in 1972 you agree that Johnson &
Johnson's reply to your letters was informative
A.
Well I
I believed them and I was accepting
what they had told me
Q.
You go on to say It is apparent that
Johnson's talc is free of asbestos right
A.
That's what I wrote
Q.
You then inquire about individuals who are
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occupationally exposed to talc such as the miners and
millers of talc right
A.
Yes
Q.
And you tell Dr. Shelley that you need research
of at least 100 men who have had occupational exposure
to talc which commenced at least 20 years ago
A.
That's what I wrote yes
MS QUINTANA
Lawton can we pull up Tab 8
This is Plaintiff's Exhibit 1683
BY MS QUINTANA
Q.
So a week later on August 10th 1972 Johnson
& Johnson responds to your letter correct
A.
Yes
Q.
They did not ignore you at the time is that
right
A.
Right
Q.
Dr. Shelley here was responding to your inquiry
regarding the talc miners right
A.
He was responding to my August 3rd letter
Q.
Right
Which was regarding talc miners right
A.
Yes
Q.
And so he informs you that Dr. Hildick is
on vacation but will write to you shortly upon his
return right
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A.
That's what he said
Q.
And he did this he said because the
information you requested was largely medical in nature
right
A.
That's what he wrote
Q.
And that's why they were having
Dr. Hildick respond to you correct
A.
That's what he said
2.
So then about a month later on
September 19th 1972 you received another letter from
Johnson & Johnson And this is Plaintiff's Exhibit 744
MS QUINTANA
Lawton it's Tab 9
BY MS QUINTANA
Q.
Do you see that Dr. Castleman
A.
September 19 1972 is the date of the letter
that I was sent
Q.
And this letter was sent by Gavin
Hildick M.D. the director of clinical research
at Johnson & Johnson at the time correct
A.
Yes
Q.
Okay So Dr. Hildick begins by thanking
you for bringing to Johnson & Johnson's attention your
concern about the possibility that talc by itself may be
a carcinogen right
A.
Yes
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Q.
And he explains that because Johnson & Johnson
markets talc it had a real concern right
A.
Yes
Q.
So he tells you that the company has been
monitoring on a continuing basis the world literature on
the biological activity of talc right
A.
That's what he said
Q.
He states that They are primarily interested
in determining whether the cosmetic use of talc can
cause any harmful effects right
A.
That's what he wrote
Q.
And he tells you at the time that the company
had no real reason to believe that talc alone will
induce neoplastic changes right
A.
That's what he wrote
Q.
Dr. Hildick then provides you with some
points that support Johnson & Johnson's position that
pure talc is not a carcinogen correct
A.
He -- he wrote that yes
Q.
And he provides you with I believe four
bullet points is that right
You can only see two on the screen but there
are four total
MS QUINTANA the other two
Lawton if you'll scroll down to
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THE WITNESS
BY MS QUINTANA
Yes there are four
Q.
At that time Dr. Hildick also addressed
your request for the records of 100 men who were
occupationally exposed to asbestos correct
A.
No I wasn't asking for the records
I was
making a suggestion about the kind of study that I
thought would be needed
Q.
Right And he responded to that right
A.
Yes
Q.
So he explains to you that it might not be
feasible to pull those records together true
A.
I'm looking for the part that you're referring
to
Q.
In the context of the entire paragraph what
he's saying is that that might not be feasible but then
he gives you some other alternatives right
A.
Well he talks about it being pertinent but
consuming to gather that kind of information
Q.
Right
And so he tells you that because it was
consuming Johnson & Johnson instead was currently
following an extensive epidemiological survey of the
cause of death in a large group of industrial workers
exposed to talc right
A.
That's what he -- that's what he wrote
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Q.
And he writes to you that this is being done
with a view to determine whether they differ from other
appropriate populations right
A.
That's what he said
Q.
He says In addition to that Johnson &
Johnson was attempting to obtain data on the cause of
death in talc miners right
A.
Yes
Q.
And again that they were doing that to
determine if the cause of death differs from other
populations right
A.
That's what he said
Q.
Dr. Hildick then concludes this letter by
telling you Thank you for your interest in writing to
Johnson & Johnson and that he looked forward to
supplying you with pertinent published data as they
become available right
A.
That's what he wrote
Q.
So I believe we determined that this was your
fourth letter to Johnson & Johnson
A.
Q.
again
Does that sound right
Third or fourth yes So a year later you write to Johnson & Johnson
MS QUINTANA
Lawton can you pull up Tab 10
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BY MS QUINTANA
Q.
And this has just recently just been introduced
as Plaintiff's 452
Do you see that
A.
Yes
So this is a letter dated October 30th 1973
that you write to Dr. Nashid Ph.D. the director of
science and information for Johnson & Johnson right
A.
Yes
Q.
And you tell the doctor that you read with
interest a copy of his informative booklet called Talc
Safety a Literature Review right
A.
Yes
Q.
Which you said was submitted to the FDA in
March and you would be grateful if he would send you a
copy right
A.
That's what I wrote
Q.
Now you see that this document was received by
Johnson & Johnson on November 2nd 1973
Do you see that
A.
Yes
MS QUINTANA BY MS QUINTANA
Lawton can we pull up Tab 27
Q.
This is Plaintiff's Exhibit 453
So less than two weeks later Dr. Nashid writes
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back to you right
A.
Yes
Q.
This was on November 13th 1973
A.
Yes
Q.
He thanks you for your letter and
and sends
you a copy of the talc safety literature review
correct
A.
Yes
Q.
Now at some point in 1975 you write a sixth
letter to Johnson & Johnson is that right
A.
Again if you can show me the letter
Q.
So I don't have a copy of the letter but this
is in response -- or prior to your phone call with
Dr. Bruce Semple
Do you remember that
A.
I think my note about Semple which I have in
front of me makes reference to another letter but let
me just see
Q.
Okay
A.
Yes I had apparently written something to
Dr. Hildick which we don't seem to have a copy
of
MS QUINTANA
Lawton can you pull up Tab 11
which is the call transcript that Dr. Castleman was
just reviewing It's Plaintiff's Exhibit 619
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BY MS QUINTANA
Q.
This is what you were just reviewing right
Doctor
A.
That's what I was just looking at just now
yes
Q.
Okay And this was your last conversation with
Johnson & Johnson during that '71 to 1975 time period
right
A.
I believe so yes
Q.
So this was a phone call that took place
between you and Dr. Bruce Semple
A.
Right yes
Q.
And according to your letter -- I'll strike
that
Dr. Semple called you in response to the letter
that you wrote to Dr. Hildick right
A.
That's what is recorded here yes
Q.
And this was a phone call correct
A.
The note that I made was of a phone call yes
I even wrote down his phone number
Q.
So during this call Dr. Semple told you about
current studies on the effects of talc right
A.
Yes
Q.
And informed you of several reports that would
be issued regarding the current effects of talc right
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A.
Yes
Q.
Which included studies on miners and millers
is that true
A.
Yes
Q. time
Among other studies that were going on at the
A.
Well I don't know about others -- yes there's
some mention about other studies down below
Q.
And to your knowledge you did not write to
Johnson & Johnson again in the 1970s after this phone
call right
A.
Right
Q.
So to recap those letters Dr. Castleman we
just looked at several letters between you and Johnson &
Johnson in the 1970s right
A.
Yes
Q.
You would agree that every single time that you
wrote to Johnson & Johnson back then they responded to
you true
A.
That appears to be the case yes
Q.
And not just any employee responded right
A.
Right These were people who had some degree
of knowledge and sophistication in the areas that I was
inquiring about
Q.
Right
So you received responses from
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Dr. Shelley who was the director of Central Research
Laboratories
A.
Yes
Q.
Dr. Steven Sawchuk the associate director of
clinical research
A.
Yes
Q.
And from Dr. Hildick who was the
director of clinical research right
A.
Yes
Q.
You would agree that during the time that you
were writing to Johnson & Johnson they provided you
with timely responses to your letters right
A.
The responses were timely yes
Q.
Now you testified on direct just a little bit
about what you have done for the past or years
right
A.
Yes
MR TISI
Objection Your Honor
approach
THE COURT
Sure
May I
MS QUINTANA
I'm not going any further than
that That's it Okay
BY MS QUINTANA
Q.
Isn't it true Doctor that your largest source
of income when you were in graduate school at the time
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that you were writing to Johnson & Johnson was working for plaintiffs lawyers
MR TISI Objection Your Honor THE COURT What's your legal objection MR TISI My legal objection is he's here as a fact witness and they asked about -- I don't think
he had any -- I'll withdraw it You can answer it
THE WITNESS
The answer's no
I wasn't
receiving money from plaintiffs lawyers before 1975
or before 1976
BY MS QUINTANA
Q.
Dr. Castleman do you recall giving a
deposition in May of 2016
A.
No.
I get deposed a lot
I don't recall every
deposition
Q.
Okay
If I showed you a copy would that help
A.
Well it probably would
MS QUINTANA
Okay
Give me one second Your
Honor
THE COURT
Yes ma'am
MS QUINTANA
Would Your Honor like a copy
THE COURT
Sure
MS QUINTANA line
It's just like one page and
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THE COURT
Thank you
MS QUINTANA
If Court and counsel would turn
to the deposition at Page 155 lines 17 through 22
THE COURT
1-5-5
MS QUINTANA
1-5-5
THE COURT
Okay
Thank you
The line was
- what's your line
MS QUINTANA Lines 17 through 22
THE COURT
Okay
Thank you
BY MS QUINTANA
Q.
So Doctor you were asked And you partly
funded your education with money you were making doing
work on the plaintiffs side correct MR TISI Objection Objection Your Honor --
go ahead
THE COURT
Overruled
BY MS QUINTANA
Q.
And you say Well it was most -- I mean I
made income from other sources but that was the largest
source of income during the time I was in graduate
school
Did I read that correctly
A.
I was talking about my doctoral studies not my
master's studies
Q.
Okay
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A.
The doctorate studies were in the 1980s
Q.
Understood
You mentioned on direct a publication by
Kleinfeld correct
A.
I did
Q.
And that was something that you had written to
Johnson & Johnson about
A.
Right
Q.
That publication dealt with talc miners and
millers at the New York Gouverneur line right
A.
Yes in New York State
Q.
And you are aware that that mine was for
industrial talc correct
A.
I'm not sure that they limited their sales to
anybody that didn't want to buy
I've certainly come
across their talc being used to make various types of
tiles and other products but I don't know that it was
limited to industrial talc
I said I've never seen --
I've never heard of any -- any records of all the customers for the talc that came from those mines
Q.
Understood
But either way that entire study was about the
New York Gouverneur line right
A.
It was about the people who work as miners in
those mines
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MS QUINTANA for one second
Your Honor Court's indulgence
THE COURT
Sure
MS QUINTANA
Thank you
BY MS QUINTANA
Q.
Dr. Castleman the last question I have for
you you mentioned on direct a book that you wrote
called Asbestos and You right
A.
It was a report yeah
We sold it as a booklet
for the Center for Science in the Public Interest and
it was also entered into the record at the Senate
hearing
Q.
And during the time that you were corresponding
with Johnson & Johnson in the 1970s you never sent them
a copy of that correct
A.
I'm pretty sure I didn't
MS QUINTANA
Thank you Your Honor
No
further questions
THE COURT All right Redirect examination
MR TISI
Yes Your Honor
Just very briefly
The following discussion was had at sidebar
out of the hearing of the jury panel
MR TISI
Yeah
I don't want to run afoul of
your rulings but it seems to me that questions were asked of the witness that would suggest that they
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were being forthcoming with -- with the witness
I
--
THE COURT
I don't understand they were being
forthcoming
MR TISI Forthcoming they timely responded They gave him all the information he wanted All
that kind of stuff
And it seems to me --
THE COURT the 1970s
Johnson & Johnson was doing that in
MR TISI
In the 1970s
THE COURT
Okay
MR TISI And when I asked him for example
the clean mine's document and the other document I
never asked him the question do you think it's --
they were being -- they were being honest with you
or maybe a different word might apply I think
counsel's opened the door for me to ask that
question now
THE COURT
Okay
MR TISI
I don't want to run -- I don't want
to run afoul because --
THE COURT
I respect that
MS QUINTANA I disagree Judge I was
reading directly from the documents
I made sure
not to stay anything - -the only question I asked
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him is whether he thought it was informative which
was in letter that he wrote and whether Johnson &
Johnson responded timely
And that is it
That's as far as I went
THE COURT
Okay
The proffer of Mr. Tisi on
behalf of plaintiff seems to be that you want to
elicit an opinion from Dr. Castleman regarding
whether he believes they were transparent with him
in corresponding
MR TISI
Correct
THE COURT I'm going to sustain that objection
by the defense
Anything else
MR TISI
No.
MS QUINTANA
Thank you
REDIRECT EXAMINATION
BY MR TISI
Q.
Dr. Castleman just one or two questions before
I -- before I sit down
You were asked questions and I just want to
clarify
Long after you were -- you were dealing with
Johnson & Johnson you have done work as a consultant
for attorneys correct
A.
Yes
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Q.
Okay You weren't doing any of that at the
time you were speaking to Johnson & Johnson were you
A.
No.
MR TISI Okay No further questions
THE COURT
Is Dr. Castleman excused
MR TISI
Unless there's any redirect or any
MS QUINTANA
No recross Your Honor
THE COURT All right Dr. Castleman have a
good day
THE WITNESS
Thank you Your Honor
THE COURT How will the plaintiff proceed
next
MR TISI Your Honor
We want to read some admissions
THE COURT
Okay
Are you ready to do that
right now
MR UUSTAL
Yes sir
THE COURT Are you going to play another
witness at some point
MR UUSTAL
Yeah
After this we have a
witness by video
MR TISI
The only thing is the time -- given
the timestamp Your Honor
THE COURT Well if you need some logistical
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time to set up I would excuse the jury for a
moment
MR UUSTAL
Okay
That might be --
THE COURT
if you want to do that
MR UUSTAL
That would be great
THE COURT
Okay
All right
So we'll do
that
I'm going to ask the jury to step out except
for Ms. Castillo
Can you just remain seated for a
moment
I want to just chat with you about a
scheduling matter
No you can have a seat right there
Not just
with me with all of us
Thank you so much for
your service
MS QUINTANA
Your Honor do you mind if I
come around just so I can see her
THE COURT No not at all Absolutely
Wherever you want
So the court deputy told me that you have some
scheduling issue that you wanted to bring to our
attention
THE JUROR
Yeah
I have a work trip that is
from next Wednesday to Friday Because I thought we
were going to be off the whole week and I didn't
have to come in on Friday
I didn't mention it for
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that reason
THE COURT
Okay
What time do you get back on
Friday
THE JUROR
Like 6:00 p.m.
THE COURT
So that's -- is there any
flexibility in your travel or -- because I know I --
in your defense I know I said that a number of
times but I remember saying try to keep that
October 3rd open
THE JUROR
Oh yeah
I don't recall
Yeah I guess
I would just -- I can come back
either
--
THE COURT THE JUROR
How far away are you going
To Texas
THE COURT
again
THE JUROR THE COURT the --
Okay What do you do for a living
Me I work in accounting
Okay
So what's the nature of
THE JUROR
It's like annual conference we
have --
THE COURT
Like an educational conference
-
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or
THE JUROR THE COURT
-- in headquarters
Or like a retreat of a --
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THE JUROR
It's a company -- company
conference
So I guess I could reschedule and just
come back Thursday night or Wednesday morning before
we start
THE COURT Dallas
Yeah
You're going to be where in
THE JUROR
Yeah
THE COURT Dallas
You're going to fly in and out of
THE JUROR
huh
THE COURT from Dallas
Okay
So they have lots of flights
THE JUROR
Yeah there should be
THE COURT
Okay
Well let me just talk to
the lawyers more about it
We just heard about
this and we wanted to kind of get the contours of
it with you
THE JUROR
Okay
THE COURT
And I'll give you some more
direction in a bit okay
THE JUROR
Okay
Thank you
THE COURT
We're going to send you back with
the other jurors Ms. Adams is going to come around
and open the door for you
Thank you so much
THE JUROR
Sure
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THE COURT
She will be right there
Okay
I mean I've got to make some decision
on that I guess
I mean I guess I don't have to
make it this moment but we're going to call the
jurors if we have to change gears
But what is everybody's position on that Do
you need more time to sort that out
MR UUSTAL
Yeah
So the situation we're in
is Dr. Lopes wife is expecting a baby
date is actually Monday
THE COURT
Monday the --
MR UUSTAL
The 6th
The due
THE COURT
Okay
MR UUSTAL
So it's actually -- the 3rd is
closer than I would like to call it because he has
said that he is not going to come testify once the
baby's born
So I tried everything I could to do it earlier
than the 3rd but it was the only thing we could do
So I would like to ask the juror to come back
Thursday night
THE COURT
Okay
MS QUINTANA
Your Honor we agreed to have
Dr. Lopes testify on October 3rd so I'm fine with
that
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THE COURT
Okay
How long do we think
Dr. Lopes testimony would be
MR UUSTAL
I would say that I would aim for
an hour but probably certainly within 90 minutes
for direct
THE COURT Who's crossing Dr. Lopes
MS QUINTANA
I am Your Honor
THE COURT And I'm not going to limit you
Any ballpark ideas is an hour cross hour and a
half cross --
MS QUINTANA
Yeah
An hour hour and a half
Your Honor
I can't guarantee that
THE COURT And I'm not looking for a
guarantee
I use that term ballpark estimate
Okay
We'll talk to her more at the end of the
day
MR UUSTAL
Okay
THE COURT
I mean I could -- I don't know if
there's much difference in her life really in
coming back Thursday night or Friday morning It's
probably better for us if she tries to come Thursday
night and has a backup Friday morning if necessary
So that's probably what we'll ask her to do
MR UUSTAL
Yeah
I think she did offer to
do --
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THE COURT
She did
All right So I'm just going to gather facts
We gathered them Both sides agreed We will still
try to target the testimony of Dr. Lopes on Friday
October 3rd and we'll ask her to kindly make an accommodation in that regard
MS PIERSON
Your Honor there is also in the
deposition designations -- there's some objections
regarding some missing exhibits on it
So that's
the next thing we're going to do
So do you want to
do that now before we move to the next --
THE COURT
Sure
Is this Koberna
MS PIERSON Yes And Karen my colleague
here is going to be handling that
THE COURT
So how long did it come out to be
MR STEPHENSON
So that's the issue
I think
after we discuss exhibits and get those
preadmitted -- I know that we're going to finish
either video that is ready to play today
THE COURT
McKeegan is that his name
McKeegan What was the other guy's name
MR STEPHENSON
Koberna
THE COURT
Koberna and
MR STEPHENSON
Koberna and McKeegan
THE COURT
McKeegan seems to be shorter than
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Koberna
MR STEPHENSON
Yeah it is for sure
I just
think that we would have to get it started in
couple minutes for it to be done
I don't think
we're going to
I don't think that we would finish
either video
We would prefer to -- if the Court is
is
willing to do so we would prefer to start Koberna
And we would have to stop and finish you know
30 minutes the next time we appear
MR UUSTAL
But that's okay -- I mean from
our side
THE COURT
Okay
As I said I have to
leave -- I have to kind of be in my car by like
3:05
I just got a text from the doctor's office
saying if I'm late they're going to cancel on me
MS QUINTANA Well then I think Your
Honor
THE COURT
No offense to this doctor
MS QUINTANA
Well and I think one of the
jurors also had a flight at 5:00 o'clock
THE COURT
He does yes
So we need to be
kind of probably you know be wrapping up
evidentiary proceedings by like 2:50
MR STEPHENSON
Yeah
And so
Judge
I
--
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candidly I think we have some - -and we all
appreciate Your Honor getting those rulings out to
provide to us this morning
THE COURT
Yeah I have some comments on that
too when we're done --
MR STEPHENSON Understood Judge
THE COURT
-- on the process
MR STEPHENSON
I do think we'll need a few
minutes because Toby's been working diligently to
get the cuts
THE COURT
Have they seen it yet
MR RUKAJ
I haven't had a chance to review
the whole video
I've reviewed the clip report
It
so far appears to be accurate
MR STEPHENSON
Unless they need to see the
entirety of the video I think they can track while
we're playing it to make sure everything is
appropriate I probably need five minutes to
discuss the exhibits and then you know we'll be
ready to roll
THE COURT
Okay
Then do you want to do that
right now
MR STEPHENSON
If we could Judge
THE COURT
All right
Let me find my comments
that I made on here
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Yeah so I don't know how many more of these
there are
I think you told me there's a lot is
that true
MR UUSTAL
Yes sir
THE COURT
Yeah
And you know it's kind of
like a double sword if that's the right term
I mean this print is so small on these things and I
have to read all of this
MR UUSTAL
Well it's not --
THE COURT
So I don't know if there's any way
to get the bigger pages And you know not a
problem It's just with bigger pages I get more
binders right So I mean -- but I am really
getting to the point if I have to read a lot of
these -- it wasn't that big of a deal in my younger
years but it's really hard to read
MR STEPHENSON Yeah Judge I understand and
we will certainly give you the full transcripts from
here on out
I would just you know say that the next video that we plan to play after these two witnesses is going to be Hawkins and we had an hour and 20 minutes of designations on day one The defense had about 20 or 30 minutes of counters right
Then what happens is you have day two They
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designated four hours and 20 minutes I think And
it's not just a continuation of depo day one
It's
Dr. Hawkins please state your full name -- it is a
blown --
THE COURT
Well I'm going to read it
And
you've all made that argument and I understand
I
didn't really see that there was a substantial
disconnect in the two that I dealt with yesterday
MR STEPHENSON
Yeah those are different
I
would agree
THE COURT
Yeah
So to the extent the
plaintiff was asking that to be shuttled to the
defense side I just didn't think that that was
appropriate with these Koberna and
what's his
name
MR STEPHENSON McKeegan
THE COURT McKeegan
But I'll certainly consider your position when
I go through it on the next one
But I'll have to
read through it at some point one way or the other
MR STEPHENSON
In all candor Judge we do
have more binders that we're ready to present to
you I just
-
THE COURT
And I'll take those
I want to get
going
I mean I don't want -- I'd like to try not
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to do these at the last second
MR RUKAJ
Well I just want to give the Court
some comfort
We've actually had some discussion
about the next two depositions which are much more
lengthy than the other two
THE COURT
As you can see I overruled about
98 percent of the objections to this
MR RUKAJ With the clarity of your
objections we've
-
THE COURT
Yes
MR RUKAJ For Hawkins specifically I think
we had five objections based off of a prior cut that
was ruled on another case
I think we're close to
agreement and with the understanding of your
rulings now we can go to the Mann one
And I've already told opposing counsel I think
given your rulings some of our objections on Mann
are likely going to be overruled and we're not going
to ask you to rule on those again
I've told them
we can go back and come to agreement now that we
have guidance for them
THE COURT
So if you have an agreement that's
fine
MR RUKAJ
Yeah
THE COURT
And we can do those in open court
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in all honesty if there's something that's real
narrow
MR RUKAJ
For one of the --
THE COURT
If you can show it to me I'll make
MR RUKAJ The big Hopkins one I think we got
down to five objections across the entire thing
THE COURT
Okay
MR RUKAJ
But we might even have more
agreement after your ruling thus far
So we'd like
to hope to not make you rule on every single page
and line in this case
THE COURT MR RUKAJ
Okay
Yeah
I appreciate that sentiment
THE COURT
The other thing is there was some
inconsistency with the objection code that one side
was using kind of such different labeling
I
figured it out
MR RUKAJ
I think we're moving away from
objection codes now
THE COURT
Okay
MR RUKAJ
-- on these bigger ones and it's
just going to be full words
THE COURT
Okay
Good
That's fine
No
problem
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MR RUKAJ
Just so there's less ambiguity
And to the extent we have agreement and there's
residual objections we'll leave those in full
terms
THE COURT
It really hasn't come into play
but it has in the past two
The eye issue that I
raised the dark green and the black are just so
close to each other
To the extent there's going to
be a need to distinguish the two
--
again
MR STEPHENSON
Yeah
THE COURT could be used
--
maybe
some
different
colors
MR STEPHENSON Understood Judge
And my last thing that I would say is just
while I certainly am working very well with my
colleague on the other side if we're not able to
reach agreement we're not going to be in front of
you Judge -- in front of Your Honor again until
next Friday My only fear is that if we don't go
ahead and give you some binders today
--
THE COURT
No I'll take them today
MR STEPHENSON All right Fair enough And
we will continue to work
THE COURT And I'm going to be here doing
special sets all next week
So if parties need
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access to the Court you just let us know and we'll
try to permit that
I have time to do it
MR STEPHENSON
Thank you Judge
THE COURT
Okay
MR STEPHENSON And so we're prepared and
ready to play and introduce these exhibits right
now
But I will defer to counsel if they need more
time to take a look
THE COURT MR RUKAJ
Okay
Give me two minutes
THE COURT
Okay
MR RUKAJ
A lot of these I think are
objections that have already been --
THE COURT
Let's just take five minutes and
everybody can -- including the court reporter can
have a break for a few minutes and we'll come back
and we'll finish up
Thank you so much
MR RUKAJ
Thank you
THE COURT
Court's in recess
MR STEPHENSON
Thank you Your Honor
Thereupon a recess was taken after which the
following proceedings were had
THE COURT Are you ready
MR UUSTAL Do you guys have objection
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THE COURT
We're on the record
The parties
are present
MR RUKAJ
We're pretty close to an agreement
Judge
THE COURT
Okay
MR RUKAJ In light of your rulings we only
have objections to four documents and they all kind
of fall in one bucket --
THE COURT MR RUKAJ
Okay
-- or three of them in one bucket
and one in another
THE COURT All right
MR RUKAJ
First is the baby camp video
H
wasn't sure if Your Honor had a chance to watch that
video
THE COURT
I haven't watched it no
MR RUKAJ
Okay
So we would maintain our
objection to the baby camp video
THE COURT
Do you want to show it to me
MR RUKAJ
We have a flash drive here we can
hand Your Honor
There's two aspects of this baby
camp video
There's the video itself and then
there's a PowerPoint presentation that goes with it
In our designations we maintained objections
to this testimony coming in largely because this is
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a negligence and strict liability case This baby
camp stuff wasn't even advertising
It's not
something that was raised --
THE COURT
Show me the video
How long is it
MR RUKAJ
It's about a few minutes long
I
mean it depends -- it's a training video for
internal salespeople at J
THE COURT What's your objection
MR RUKAJ Our objection is it's irrelevant
It's unduly prejudicial It doesn't
-
THE COURT The 401 403 objection
MR RUKAJ
It also contains hearsay within
hearsay
THE COURT
Okay
MR STEPHENSON May I respond Judge
THE COURT
Yeah but I can't rule on it unless
I look at it
MR STEPHENSON
Well understood
THE COURT
I know that
MR STEPHENSON
But just to give you a little
context you did review the transcript --
THE COURT
I did
MR STEPHENSON
-- where the video is
discussed in detail
THE COURT
I know
I understand
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MR STEPHENSON
There's five videos on here
Judge
Commercials
I need to figure out what's
shown as the baby camp
THE COURT
Okay
And you gave me this flash
drive
It was on here
MR RUKAJ
Yeah
I believe the flash drive
that was clipped to the binder had all of the
videos
THE COURT
Okay
Let's see what's on here
What's the number
MR STEPHENSON Baby Camp 1
THE COURT
I got PF1 PF2
MR RUKAJ
There's five on there Judge
I'm
sorry THE COURT
Is that it
MR RUKAJ
That's not it
THE COURT
Huh
MR RUKAJ
That's not it
THE COURT MR RUKAJ
That's not it Okay
I think it's P5-2
All right
THE COURT MR RUKAJ THE COURT on a second
This one says P5-2-4
I think that's it Judge When I opened it there was -- hold
MR RUKAJ
Probably be able to tell me you
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didn't notice it
THE COURT MR RUKAJ old man
Yeah 2-4 No that's not it
It will be an
THE COURT
Oh hold on
Say that again now
MR RUKAJ
It should just be P5-2
it's marked
That's how
THE COURT
Okay
Hold on a second
I got it
I have a P5-1 a P5-2-4 which is
the one I just opened And then I've got PF3 PF4
PF9
MR RUKAJ
Okay
MR STEPHENSON May I give you this Judge
THE COURT
Yeah
MR STEPHENSON
P5-2
THE COURT
Okay
So it's got exhibit numbers
here
This one says
- what's the number
MR RUKAJ
It should be P5-2
THE COURT
No they're not --
MS QUINTANA
3059
MR RUKAJ
3059
THE COURT
3059
It's the same one
MR RUKAJ
Can you try Exhibit 414
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THE COURT MR RUKAJ PowerPoint
Say that again
Exhibit 414.
That's just a
THE COURT
I don't have a 414 on this drive
here
What else --
MR STEPHENSON
Can you just try to open --
there should be an old man --
THE COURT
Here
MR STEPHENSON
I'm sorry Judge
THE COURT
No that's all right
You don't
have to apologize
Video played
MR RUKAJ
That's the one
The objection with that video Your Honor
there's close to a page PowerPoint presentation
that includes exact dollar figures and profits
percentage of net income and issues like that which
you've already ruled on to exclude
So really my objection falls into two buckets
There's that video in front of you
We believe that
this nonadvertising document about the cornerstone
--
golden egg
THE COURT
Who's this guy
MR RUKAJ
What
THE COURT
Who was the guy
Is he this --
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MR RUKAJ
He was a training officer at
Johnson & Johnson at one point yeah
MR TISI
Actually I think he was the -- he's
a really high ranking
if I'm not mistaken he may
have been the president of the company
THE COURT
This is -- okay
MR TISI
He's -- I mean honestly Your
Honor this goes hand --
THE COURT
I'm not excluding that video
But
I may exclude part of it
MR TISI Okay
THE COURT And that was the ruling I made I
think in the depos yesterday that I did sustain
the objections when they were talking about revenues
and size Because I made a pretrial ruling I
thought on that
MR RUKAJ
Yeah
So golden egg
--
revenues
THE COURT
No
I'm not -
-
golden
egg
is
coming
in
MR RUKAJ
Very well
THE COURT
But 23 billion in revenue that is
what I think I sustained in the objection and in the
testimony
MR RUKAJ
Yes
THE COURT
And I would sustain it as to that
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video
The rest of it you know the golden egg --
you know that's a -- all of that I allowed in
MR RUKAJ
Very well
THE COURT
The specific financials of Johnson
& Johnson I think I previously excluded and I will
do that again
MR RUKAJ
And that's the rest of my
objections to the four documents I had
There's a PowerPoint associated with that video
that has a litany of financial documents And then there's other documents talking about sales figures and targeted advertising and success in profits that
we have issues with as well
THE COURT
Is it all on this drive
MR RUKAJ
I think these are documents that we
can make
THE COURT
Oh okay
MR STEPHENSON
I'm trying to be respectful to
let counsel finish but I need to speak to all of
these things
THE COURT
Okay
MR STEPHENSON
So Judge your rulings were
your rulings When we did the designations there
are portions of these PowerPoints that are not
played in the designation and I understand what
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your rulings are You know we would object to that
not coming in but I understand your rulings and we
just would preserve that objection
THE COURT
Okay
I haven't seen the
documents
MR STEPHENSON Yeah well I will just
stipulate that to the extent that the exhibits that
go in with Koberna that are not played in the
-
designations
-to the extent those reference sales
and financial figures I would agree that based on
your rulings those have to come out and be redacted
without prejudice if somehow they become relevant
later on
THE COURT Okay All right
So that would be the ruling then
And are you ready to --
MR STEPHENSON
So if I may consult
THE COURT
Of course
MR RUKAJ
Yeah just to make sure that the
video play is in line with your ruling we have to
check the video play --
THE COURT
Yeah that's going to have to get
redacted
MR RUKAJ Right wants to do real quick
That's exactly what he just Specifically the
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documents I don't believe there's a lot of testimony going through the issues we have We just didn't want them wholesale admitted into evidence
But right now we just have to check the baby
camp video specifically to make sure that portion
isn't in there before we bring the jury in
THE COURT
Okay
MR RUKAJ
Does that work
THE COURT
Yeah it works
I mean whatever
you -- but you know we're kind of getting tight on
time here
MR RUKAJ we have --
We'll move expediently
It's one
THE COURT No you're moving very expediently
You want to start this
MR RUKAJ
Yeah
MR TISI
I'm concerned Your Honor --
THE COURT
All right
I'm sorry Mr. Tisi
MS PIERSON
Your Honor we're going to start
it
We're going to start it
We're going to do so
It's traditionally English --
THE COURT Again I'm stopping the evidence at
2:50
And it's 2:25 and you need some time to type
this up So that's why I'm just being practical
MR RUKAJ
So if you guys want to just
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MR UUSTAL
That's fine
MR RUKAJ
-- prepare the videos to be played
next time and walk through the rest of the exhibits
we talked about to make use of this time
Because
it is 2:20
Whatever -- I don't want to jam -- it's your
case
I know you have to decide what to do about
it
But I need to use --
THE COURT for admissions
He was going to do some requests
MR STEPHENSON
Let's do the admissions
MR UUSTAL admissions
Let's do the requests for
All right So we do have a couple requests for admissions but it's only going to take a minute or
two
Could we just wait two minutes to see if we
could get this done
THE COURT
No problem
I'm not in a rush
MR UUSTAL
Thank you Your Honor
MR RUKAJ
Do you have the cut video
Let me
just check it right now and that will kind of
resolve that
Video played
MR RUKAJ
Thank you very much Charlie
H
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appreciate that
And he says the second clip
earlier part of the clip played
MR BURGESS
That's it
Is there an
MR RUKAJ Oh okay All right
that resolves the issue Your Honor
THE COURT
Problem solved
Then I think
MR UUSTAL
Yeah so I would suggest we start
the video
We stop whenever the Court wants
THE COURT
No problem
That's fine
MR UUSTAL
Okay
Thank you Your Honor
THE COURT
Do you want to do the request
first the admissions
MR UUSTAL
No that's fine
We'll do it next
week
THE COURT Okay All right
So let's get the jury in please
THE CLERK
Yes Judge
MR STEPHENSON
Do we want to introduce the
exhibits Or do we need to do that formally
THE COURT Yeah you'll need to do it formally
at some point
You want to do it with the jury or
you want to do it now
MR STEPHENSON
Yeah
THE COURT These are not objected to right
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MR RUKAJ
Four of them are
Subject to Your
Honor's ruling that they need to be redacted we've
removed all financial --
THE COURT
So we're just not going to put them
before the jury
MR RUKAJ
Yeah
THE COURT
So what are they being marked as
MS PIERSON They're already in the clips I
believe
Aren't they in the clips Cameron
MR TISI
Some of it is not
MS PIERSON
Oh it's in the documents
MR TISI
Yeah it's in --
MR STEPHENSON
All of the documents are in
the clips Just not the entirety of the documents
MS PIERSON Right
MR TISI
We'll redact the document
That's
fine
THE COURT
So we'll start playing it and then
you can redact those and you can put that in next
week
Because we're not going to finish the video
MR STEPHENSON
Understood
THE COURT
And you want your flash drive back
understandably
MR STEPHENSON
Yeah it's this little guy
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THE COURT
Yeah let me pull that thing here
so I don't break it
Per protocol I think I have
to eject cruise or something
MR STEPHENSON
Don't mind me
I usually just
yank it and it busts
THE COURT
I usually do it too but it's
yours I didn't want to participate in the damage
of the property
And frankly whoever gave me -- somebody else
gave me a flash drive
Who gave me mine
MR RUKAJ
It wasn't me
Did you guys --
THE COURT
The binders came from the
plaintiffs my depo binders
MS PIERSON
Yes
Yes
THE COURT
So I have a flash drive
Do you
want me to keep it with the binders and give it back
to you when I'm done or --
MR STEPHENSON
Yes Your Honor
That's fine
THE COURT Okay No problem
Are you going to have any other evidence on
Friday the 3rd
MR UUSTAL
So the situation we're in is
there's a lot of videos
I think we should right
We should use that space if everyone's here
THE COURT Yeah that's why I'm asking
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because everybody's here and I've got a full day
MR UUSTAL
Yeah
Then we will
THE COURT
Okay
a little earlier
So I may have them come back
MR UUSTAL
Yeah
THE COURT
Does that work for everybody
Maybe 9:30
MR UUSTAL
Yes sir
Thank you
The jury entered the courtroom after which
the following proceedings were had
THE COURT
Okay
You can all be seated
Welcome back members of the jury
We're ready to continue
As I told you that we're going to break at no
later than 3:00 o'clock We're probably going to do
some more evidence here for about 20 25 more
minutes and break and then kind of talk a little
housekeeping at the end and then we'll be through
the day
That works for your flight schedule right
THE JUROR
Correct
THE COURT
Okay
Great
Thank you
So the plaintiff is presenting evidence and
I'll turn to counsel for the plaintiff to announce
how you will proceed next
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MR UUSTAL The plaintiff is going to call by
videotaped deposition Frederick Koberna
THE COURT
Koberna A correct
MR UUSTAL
Yes sir
THE COURT Okay And members of the jury
let me just give you an instruction
So the sworn testimony of Mr. Koberna given
previously before this trial will now be presented
You are to consider and to weigh this testimony as
you would any other evidence in the case
And with that Counsel you may publish
MR UUSTAL
Thank you
A video clip was played and transcribed by the
court reporter to the best of her ability as
follows
BY MR UUSTAL
Q.
Will you -- or rather state your full name
A.
Yes
It's Frederick William Koberna Jr.
Q.
And you understand that you have been
designated by Johnson & Johnson to answer questions we
have on these marketing and advertising topics with the
exception I believe of Topic 12 correct
A.
That is correct
Q.
Okay And you understand then that your
answers today bind
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MR RUKAJ
approach
THE COURT
Your Honor can I object and may we
Hold on
MR RUKAJ May we approach
THE COURT
Yeah of course
The following discussion was had at sidebar
out of the hearing of the jury panel
MR RUKAJ
Your Honor we just have an issue
THE COURT
Why don't you whoever's going to
talk to me come in here
MR RUKAJ
I just have the issue with the
pleading from another lawsuit being shown in full to
the jury
There's a different case than this one at
issue that was just shown to the jury And I
thought it would just be a fleeting reference to
specific line but the entire thing was up there
So I would just ask if we show pleadings from
other litigation that we limit it to the subject
matter of what he's being asked and not include the
names of other lawsuits given Your Honor's ruling
MR STEPHENSON
Your Honor this is the issue
is that we made the clips based on Your Honor's
rulings
If this is going to happen over and over
again -- the only way this can be avoided is if they
watch the clip
So maybe they need time to watch
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the full clip
THE COURT Okay And I don't disagree with
that last point
MR TISI And Judge he was a 30 6
witness
He testified for the company on those
issues
THE COURT
No I get it
I understand
MR TISI
He should be able to -- I mean
nobody
-
candidly
nobody is going to look at the
title of this pleading
It just --
THE COURT
It was just the title of the case
that he was testifying in
MR TISI
It was the MBL
It was the MBL
THE COURT
It was the MBL
MR TISI
Yeah
THE COURT
So what do you want me to do
MR RUKAJ
I don't know how many pleadings
they intend to show My understanding from the
testimony it would just be the subjects and what he
was prepared to talk about
If there's a quick fix
we can do that's great
But I just got the --
THE COURT
Does this happen a lot
MR STEPHENSON
No.
MR TISI been cut
Before you do that it should have
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MR RUKAJ
I told you we could cut it down
I
just don't
-
THE COURT
Oh
MR RUKAJ Listen it's not normally about
other lawsuits It's a plaintiff party
lawsuit you're on
MR TISI
It doesn't say that
THE COURT
No.
MR TISI
This isn't even in the exhibit list
THE COURT REPORTER
I'm sorry
MR RUKAJ
Frankly we can use that --
THE COURT
Why don't you talk for a moment
here because the reporter -- the reporter can't
hear all
MR RUKAJ
That's just our position Your
Honor It's just referencing other lawsuits It's
a multidistrict litigation We can
-
frankly
based on Your Honor's ruling it shouldn't be -- I
understand if he's going to be talking about the
topics that he's prepared to in this
-
THE COURT
You should have brought it up to me
five minutes ago
MR RUKAJ
I didn't see the video
I haven't
had a chance to watch the video
THE COURT
That's why I said you should watch
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the video
MR RUKAJ
I would be happy to
think I would --
I just don't
THE COURT
I -- your suggestion
We're just
going to regroup
So we will come back on another
day and publish it
Do you want to bring these to Mr. Uustal about
scheduling it for the moment
Is there something else you want to do
Mr. Stephenson suggested that maybe they need to
watch this to avoid us being a jack
during the sidebar on these issue And he needs to
watch the video
So is there anything else you want to do Otherwise I'm content with making sure this guy gets his plane We can talk housekeeping amongst
ourselves
MR UUSTAL What's the objection
THE COURT
I made an in limine ruling so that
there's no reference to any other lawsuits
I just
held up I guess the pleadings
But I'm not going to -- I'm not going to make a
ruling on it yet because it's going to come up
again apparently and one he hasn't seen the
whole thing
So I'm going to let him watch that
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For 15 minutes of time it's not worth
- the juice
isn't worth the squeeze as the old saying goes
MR UUSTAL
Yeah we will read the request for
admissions
THE COURT
Okay
Are you ready to do those
MR UUSTAL
Yeah I'm ready to do that
I
just think -- whatever the Court wants to do
THE COURT Okay All right I appreciate it
Sidebar concluded
THE COURT All right Members of the jury we
began playing this video The Court needs to make
an additional ruling on that
So for that reason I
need more time to do this
Both sides are ready to
proceed
I want to look at it a little more
So at this point that's what I'm going to do
We're going to put that out for the time being We
weren't going to get much of it done anyway
We
weren't going to finish it so I made a decision on
my own to push this off to one of the next sessions
So Mr. Uustal how are you going to proceed
next
MR UUSTAL
We are going to read some requests
for admissions that we had asked the defendant to
admit
THE COURT
Okay
So I'm going to give them an
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instruction on that as well
All right
Members of the jury the answers to
what are called requests for admissions will now be
read to you and these are written questions that
are propounded in the course of what's called
discovery before the trial from one party to
another They're answered under oath And you're
to consider and weigh the questions and answers as
you would any other evidence in the case
MR UUSTAL You're reading the request for
admissions
THE COURT Right
MR UUSTAL
Oh okay
I didn't hear the
beginning I thought it was interrogatories
THE COURT Well it's a similar
instruction but I think I said RFAs but --
MR RUKAJ
Okay
Could we just see a copy
before it's read to the Court
THE COURT
Didn't you --
MR BROWN
Just go
MR UUSTAL
Thank you
THE COURT
Okay
Go ahead
MR UUSTAL
Thank you Your Honor
Request Number 5 Admit that neither Johnson &
Johnson nor Johnson & Johnson Consumer Inc. ever
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sought FDA review or approval for Johnson's baby powder or Shower to Shower contained talc prior to
2019.
Response from the defendants
Defendants
admit that as cosmetic products containing
Johnson's baby powder and Shower to Shower did not
undergo FDA review for approval before they were
sold to the United States Except as expressly
admitted herein defendant denies this request
Request Number 6 Admit that at all times that
Johnson & Johnson and Johnson & Johnson Consumer
Inc. marketed or sold Johnson's baby powder or
Shower to Shower either Johnson & Johnson or
Johnson & Johnson Consumer Inc. chose the
ingredients
Defendant admits that one or more of the J
companies was responsible for the design and formulation of containing Johnson's baby powder sold in the United States from approximately 1894 until the product's discontinuation
Defendant further admits that all times from
Shower to Shower's inception until -
-
sorry
--
2012 one or more of the J companies had
responsibility for the design and formulation of
Shower to Shower distributed in the United States
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Except as expressly admitted herein defendant
denies this request
And I'll read one more right now
Request Number 7 Admit that neither Johnson &
Johnson nor Johnson & Johnson Consumer Inc. ever
sought FDA approval for any ingredient in any
formulation of Johnson's baby powder or Shower to
Shower containing talc
Response
Defendant admits that as cosmetic
products containing Johnson's baby powder and
Shower to Shower did not undergo FDA review or
approval before they were sold in the United States
Except as expressly admitted herein defendant
denies this request
Thank you Your Honor
THE COURT All right thank you
And I stand corrected
The pattern that I should have read to you and
I'll read as follows members of the jury where a
party has admitted certain facts in this process
you must accept these facts as true
All right
MR UUSTAL
Thank you Your Honor
THE COURT Anything else you want to do today
MR UUSTAL
No sir
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THE COURT defense
All right
Anything else from the
MS QUINTANA
Not at this time Your Honor
THE COURT
All right
Can you pass in your
notebooks We're going to be done for the day
Mr. Sandler's got that plane to catch here pretty
soon
I hope you have a safe trip
THE JUROR
Thank you Your Honor
THE COURT And hope everything goes well
So Ms. Castillo we're going to ask that --
can you modify that like we discussed
THE JUROR
Yes okay
THE COURT We're very appreciative of that
We really need next Friday
THE JUROR
Okay
That's fine
THE COURT
We have some witness issues and
etc. so we'll ask you to do that
Members of the jury remember we're not here
tomorrow
So don't come in tomorrow
We don't need
you Monday Tuesday Wednesday or Thursday We need you back on Friday October the 3rd and I'm going
to ask you to come back -- I think I mentioned to
you originally I wasn't supposed to be in town so I don't have any of the other hearings that I have
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every day
So we're going to ask you to come in
just a little earlier so we can get a fuller day
at 9:30 a.m.
Does that work for everybody
THE JURORS
Yes
THE COURT
All right
So I remind you not to
discuss the case amongst yourselves or with anyone
else not to conduct any of your own investigation
or research about any of the issues in the case or
the people and the parties involved in the case
I'll ask you to come back where you reported
each day at 9:30 a.m. next Friday October the 3rd
Are there any scheduling questions from the
jurors
THE JURORS
No.
THE COURT Okay Thank you again for your
service ladies and gentlemen
Ms. Jones will see you at the back door
Have a good afternoon
THE JURORS
Thank you
The jury panel left the courtroom after which
the following proceedings were had
THE COURT
Okay
You can be seated
What else do we need to discuss today
MS QUINTANA
Judge can I just ask to see a
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copy now
I just want to write down - -I couldn't
find it what he was reading from while he was
reading it
THE COURT
Sure
MS QUINTANA
I just need to -- I just need to
see like the filing stamp I just couldn't find
it while you were reading it
MR UUSTAL
The requests for admissions
MS QUINTANA
Yeah
MR UUSTAL
Okay
And if I could read just a
list of plaintiff's exhibits that there's no
objection to
It would take about 30 seconds to
read those
THE COURT
Whatever you need
MR UUSTAL
Okay
THE COURT
Let's wait until we get -- you're
ready to go
Okay Go ahead
MR UUSTAL
Plaintiff's Exhibit 35
MR RUKAJ THE COURT
No objection
So I'll receive 35 into evidence
without objection Plaintiff's Exhibit Number 45 Document was
received in Evidence
MR UUSTAL
41
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MR RUKAJ THE COURT
No objection
41 will be received into evidence
without objection
Plaintiff's Exhibit Number 41 Document was
received in Evidence
MR UUSTAL
231
MR RUKAJ THE COURT
No objection
231 is received into evidence
without objection Plaintiff's Exhibit Number 231 Document was
received in Evidence
MR UUSTAL
285
MR RUKAJ No objection Just for the record these are plaintiff
exhibits
THE COURT
Plaintiff's 285 is received into
evidence without objection Plaintiff's Exhibit Number 285 Document was
received in Evidence
MR UUSTAL
434
MR RUKAJ
That's already in
MR UUSTAL Oh that's why they're checked
Okay Thank you
585
MR RUKAJ Yes No objection
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THE COURT
Plaintiff's 585 is received in
evidence without objection
Plaintiff's Exhibit Number 585 Document was
received in Evidence
MR UUSTAL
1179
MR RUKAJ THE COURT
No objection
Plaintiff's 1179 is received in
evidence without objection
Plaintiff's Exhibit Number 1179 Document was
received in Evidence
MR UUSTAL
1202
MR RUKAJ THE COURT
No objection
Plaintiff's 1202 is received in
evidence without objection
Plaintiff's Exhibit Number 1202 Document was
received in Evidence
MR UUSTAL
1679
MR RUKAJ 1357
I think you skipped one
MR UUSTAL
1357.
Thank you
MS PAPANTONIO
1422 as well
MR RUKAJ
So going in numerical order I
think the next one on the list is Plaintiff's
Exhibit 1357
Defendants have no objection
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THE COURT
Plaintiff's 1357 will be received
without objection
Plaintiff's Exhibit Number 1357 Document was
received in Evidence
MR UUSTAL
Okay
And then 1422
MR RUKAJ Likewise no objection
THE COURT
Plaintiff's 1422 is received
without objection
Plaintiff's Exhibit Number 1422 Document was
received in Evidence
MR UUSTAL
1679
MR RUKAJ THE COURT
No objection
Plaintiff's 1679 is received
without objection
Plaintiff's Exhibit Number 1679 Document was
received in Evidence
MR UUSTAL
2574
MR RUKAJ
I think we skipped one
Plaintiff's Exhibit 2561. They indicated their
intent to admit --
MS QUINTANA That's already in MR RUKAJ Oh it's already in Apologies So the 2574 we have no objection
to Plaintiff's Exhibit 2574
THE COURT
Plaintiff's 2574 is received
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without objection Plaintiff's Exhibit Number 2574 Document was
received in Evidence
MR UUSTAL
2613
MR RUKAJ THE COURT
No objection
Plaintiff's 2613 is received
without objection
Plaintiff's Exhibit Number 2613 Document was
received in Evidence
MR UUSTAL
2619
MR RUKAJ THE COURT
No objection
Plaintiff's 2619 is received
without objection
Plaintiff's Exhibit Number 2619 Document was
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MR UUSTAL
2661
MR RUKAJ No objection
THE WITNESS
Plaintiff's 2661 is received
without objection
Plaintiff's Exhibit Number 2661 Document was
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MR UUSTAL
2878
MR RUKAJ THE COURT
No objection
Plaintiff's 2878 is received
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MR UUSTAL
3041
MR RUKAJ
This one we have an objection to
It's the one I think
MR UUSTAL
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MR RUKAJ THE COURT
No objection
What's the number
MR UUSTAL
3359
THE COURT
Okay
Plaintiff's 3359 is received
without objection
Plaintiff's Exhibit Number 3359 Document was
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3409
MS PAPANTONIO
3429
MS QUINTANA
Judge that was the whole
entirety of the congressional hearing that I had
objected to
MR UUSTAL
Okay
Then maybe the last one
3429
MS PAPANTONIO
Yeah
MR RUKAJ No objection
THE COURT
3429 is received without objection
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MS PAPANTONIO
Your Honor may I approach
THE COURT
Sure
Thank you so much
Is that it
MR UUSTAL
Yes sir
THE COURT
So I still have this 3409 and
you're still moving that into evidence
MR UUSTAL
We will but we'll probably --
we'll probably do that after some more testimony
THE COURT
I'm going to give it back to you
if you don't mind
MR UUSTAL
Thank you
THE COURT
Thank you
And --
MR TISI
Just to be clear 3041 you're
reserving on or --
MR RUKAJ
What's the exhibit number
I'm
sorry MS PIERSON
3041
MR TISI
Your objection to this document -- I
thought we had an agreement that any document in J
is a business record
MR RUKAJ
Is this the PowerPoint
MR TISI
This is the PowerPoint
MR RUKAJ
So I just have to verify
MS PAPANTONIO There's a couple objections
that we just have to talk about
So we'll talk
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MR TISI that --
Okay
I just thought this was one
MR UUSTAL
Okay
That's all we have for the
plaintiffs Your Honor
THE COURT
Okay
What else do we need to
discuss today
MR UUSTAL
I think that's it Your Honor
MR BROWN Nothing from us Judge
THE COURT
All right
Thank you Counsel on
both sides for your efforts this week
I will see
you I guess on Friday morning October the 3rd at
9:30
MR BROWN
Yes Your Honor
THE COURT Maybe the lawyers ought to be here
at 9:00 that day in case there's issues or
something
MS PIERSON Absolutely Your Honor
Unfortunately Dr. Casaretto will not be able to be
here on Friday He has a conference he's speaking
at and he cannot get out
THE COURT Okay All right
MS PIERSON
But Mrs. Casaretto will be here
THE COURT
Okay
following Monday
See you then on the
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Is Dr. Booth your only live
witness on Friday Okay
MS PIERSON
I believe so
But if not we'll
tell whenever the -- 3:00 o'clock the day before if
there's anyone else that we still plan to play --
MS QUINTANA Okay
MS PIERSON
But if there's another live
witness we will let you know by the day end
MS QUINTANA
Sounds good
Thank you
THE COURT
Okay
As I said if -- we'll be
here all next week if you need us except on
Thursday We won't be in session on Thursday The
courthouse will be closed for the religious holiday
but we'll be here Monday through Wednesday
The Court's in recess
Have a good day
MR UUSTAL
Thank you Judge
MS QUINTANA
Have a good weekend
MR TISI
Thank you Judge
I think we got you in your car
THE COURT
I'm going to get there yeah
Thereupon the trial is in recess at 2:43
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