The only question is how much damage they'll do before politicians sympathetic to their cause are ousted from office.

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Wyeth is trying to counter the lawyers by settling the most damaging cases--the ones with sympathetic, high-earning plaintiffs or strong evidence of heart damage on an echocardiogram--and pushing the weak ones in front of juries.

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The whole purpose of the 1986 vaccine act was to prevent the threat of sympathetic jurors from driving vaccine manufacturers out of the business, by setting up an alternate court system with scheduled damage payments.

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