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).
Genres
- 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 1996
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