On a cold Thursday evening in March 2014, a New Jersey trial attorney named Bill Burns browsed on his phone while waiting for the bill at a sushi restaurant near his home. He scrolled to a Facebook post by his sister-in-law, Aimee Hardy. “Please help us save our son,” the note began. “Share this post if you believe a child’s life is more important than money.” What followed was brief and heartbreaking:
The situation is this: Our son, Josh Hardy, who recently had a bone marrow transplant, has developed the adenovirus. This [is] a deadly virus for people who…
