A single toxic-tort case generates paper taller than a building

Evidence

Facher himself had measured the size of the file drawers and added the numbers together. “A rough estimate of the magnitude of medical, technical and legal materials amassed thus far, stacked vertically, would exceed sixty feet, or the equivalent of a three-story building.” — , Harr Jonathan - A Civil Action, 1517

Categorization

• CANDY: Sixty feet of files, a three-story building — a vivid, shareable image of litigation’s sheer physical bulk.