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The lawyer had not wanted the case at first - it was too big, too complicated, too risky. It concerned a cluster of childhood leukemia victims in a small town north of Boston where the city wells had been poisoned by industrial chemicals. Two of the nation's largest corporations, each with a plant near the wells, stood accused. Against his better judgment, the lawyer found himself drawn into the case.
In this book, you'll meet the Harvard Law professor who told the lawyer that this case was worth a billion dollars, that it was the sort of lawsuit that would ring the alarm in corporate boardrooms across America. And you'll meet his adversaries, foremost among them a crafty old trial lawyer, chairman of the litigation department at one of the biggest and most feared law firms in Boston.
The case turned into an epic struggle that took nine years of the lawyer's life. At the heart of the legal system, he was confronted by powerful and well-connected interests who would do anything to win. In the end, the struggle nearly cost the lawyer his sanity. He sacrificed everything - home, friends, and reputation - not for money, but for what he believed to be the truth.
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Trials, litigation, W.R. Grace & Co, Law and legislation, Drinking water, Groundwater, Contamination, Liability for water pollution damages, Trials (Toxic torts), Pollution, Hazardous Waste, Water Pollution, Milieuverontreiniging, Privaatrechtelijk milieurecht, Trinkwasserverschmutzung, Zivilprozess, Aansprakelijkheid, Wasserverschmutzung, Procesrecht, open_syllabus_project, Anderson, Anne, 1936?- -- Trials, litigation, etc, Legislation & jurisprudence, Anderson, Anne, 1936?- -- Trials, litigation, etc, Schlichtmann, Jan, W.R. Grace & Co. -- Trials, litigation, etc, Trials (Toxic torts) -- Massachusetts -- Boston, Groundwater -- Pollution -- Law and legislation -- Massachusetts -- Woburn, Drinking water -- Contamination -- Massachusetts -- Woburn, Liability for water pollution damages -- Massachusetts -- Woburn, Liability for hazardous substances pollution damages, Trials, united states, Toxic torts, Groundwater, pollution, Trials, litigation, etcanderson, anne , 1936?-, Anderson, anne , 1936?-, Trials, litigation, etcw.r. grace & co, W.r. grace & co., Trials (toxic torts)--massachusetts--boston, Groundwater--pollution--law and legislation, Groundwater--pollution--law and legislation--massachusetts--woburn, Drinking water--contamination, Drinking water--contamination--massachusetts--woburn, Liability for water pollution damages--massachusetts--woburn, Trials, Groundwater--pollution, Water pollution--law and legislation, Water pollution--legislation & jurisprudence, Kf228.a667 h37 1996, Wa 689 h296c 1996, 346.7303 har, Kb71.5.w6 h296c 1996Places
Massachusetts, Woburn, BostonShowing 8 featured editions. View all 19 editions?
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 495-498).
Map on lining paper.
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A Civil Action is a 1996 work of non-fiction by Jonathan Harr about a water contamination case in Woburn, Massachusetts, in the 1980s. The book became a best-seller and won the National Book Critics Circle Award for nonfiction.
The case is Anderson v. Cryovac. The first reported decision in the case is at 96 F.R.D. 431 (denial of defendants' motion to dismiss).
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