500 pages
English language
Published 1996 by Century.
A civil action
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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).
Subjects
- Drinking water
- Contamination
- Groundwater
- Pollution
- Law and legislation
- Trials (Offenses against the environment)
- Trials (Toxic torts)
- Liability for water pollution damages
Places
- Massachusetts
- United States