I don't think they're going to have a difficult time assembling a jury. While there are a number of citizens who've been displaced, there are also a number of jurors who have moved back in. |
The citizens of New Orleans have been through enormous displacement and generally speaking they're bursting at the seams with anger. They're angry at a lot of things. They're angry at no one in particular and everything in general. |
There isn't going to be the negative emotion and hostility towards Merck in Atlantic City that you would find in Texas. [The jurors] are not going to start out with an instantaneous negative view of Merck as a corporation. They're going to be more likely to listen to the statistics. |