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The October depositions rolled past, one by one: the northern California ones—San Francisco, Sacramento, Oakland, San Jose—most of them places Sarah had never visited before. Then on to Las Vegas and Reno. Denver and Colorado Springs. Albuquerque, Phoenix, Tucson—the airports and hotels all became a blur, each one interchangeable as she checked into a new one every night, sat in a conference room all the next day, then flew out again to a new city where she would rinse, repeat, ask her same list of questions.
By mid-November, Sarah spent a weekend compiling some of the information she had gathered: a range of dates for when the product had been purchased, a list of stores or Internet sites where the plaintiffs bought the hair iron, and a spreadsheet detailing how long they used it befo
