- Trials, litigation, W.R. Grace & Co, Law and legislation, Drinking water
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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Earnest, grave, classical in form and plot-driven.
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About the book
- Author
- Jonathan Harr
- First published
- 1995
- Pages
- 502
- Publisher
- Century, Turtleback Books, Lian jing chu ban shi ye gong si
- Editions
- 19
- Language
- English, Chinese
- ISBN
- 9780375704383
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