Civil Litigation
Sep. 27, 2017
Witness urges everyone to get out their calculators
The president of a chemical testing company asked the courtroom to check his math as he did calculations on a drawing pad in the witness box, during a trial over whether coffee is linked to cancer.
LOS ANGELES — The president of a testing company urged spectators and lawyers in a courtroom on Tuesday to pull out their calculators and check his math as he drew calculations on a drawing pad in the witness box.
Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Elihu Berle, presiding over the bench trial on whether coffee makers and sellers must label their products as having a link to cancer, did not pull out a calculator.
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