“Deep pockets”, what exactly does the term mean? It is used in this movie to describe the large companies being sued by lawyer Jan Schlichman. John Travolta plays a personal injury lawyer who heads the lawsuit against a tannery suspected of contaminating the town’s water supply. This movie focuses on some of the topics that we had discussed in class throughout the semester.
One concept that comes to mind is corporate responsibility. I understand that the tannery, in this movie, was not a huge corporation but rather a fairly large business. However, I still saw some similarities between the tannery in the movie and the corporations that were discussed in class. We talked about whether civil justice is out of control or if the enormous a
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