Lawyers for a California man who says he developed a rare cancer from exposure to asbestos in Johnson & Johnson's talc-based baby powder on Monday urged a jury to order the company to pay heavy punitive damages, calling its conduct negligent and 'despicable.' 'A reasonably careful corporation would not sell a product that allowed carcinogens to be applied to babies,' Joseph Satterley, a lawyer for Emory Hernandez Valadez, said in a closing argument at the end of a six-week trial in Alameda County Superior Court in California.

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