Corporations designate a witness to know about waste who then claims ignorance.

Evidence

This puzzled Schlichtmann. Cheeseman had admitted in his response to interrogatories that “small amounts” of chemical waste had been poured “from time to time” on the ground behind the plant. Cheeseman had produced Shalline as the person most knowledgable about waste disposal, but now Shalline denied knowing anything. — , Harr Jonathan - A Civil Action, 771

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the corporate denial-pattern material in the base-nation and institutional-trust reading: formal admissions calibrated to be minimal and unaccountable. — connects to: Willful ignorance of product misuse lets industries deny responsibility for harm. — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement: How People Do Harm…, 1100; Structurally engineered ignorance diffuses moral responsibility for a product’s misuse — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement: How People Do Harm…, 1096

Broader Connections

• Structurally engineered ignorance diffuses moral responsibility for a product’s misuse #expands (0.90) — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement, 1096
• Willful ignorance of product misuse lets industries deny responsibility for harm. #expands (0.85) — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement, 1100