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Amount Of Money Civil Action
1,035 wordsThe movie A Civil Action brings up an interesting idea that many people in the public don't see or hear about very often. The idea that the big corporations often don't take into account the safety of the people that work for them or the people that live around the factories. These big corporations are run entirely by money and the idea of what things will cost and how much money they can possibly make. Too many times money is more important than the lives of human beings and the people that run...
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Civil Action Drinking Water
1,272 wordsIn 1979, two wells supplying the drinking water for the small New England town of East Worburn, in Massachusetts, were found to be dumping industrial solvents. At this same time in Massachusetts, there were other investigations of industrial dumping. The residents of Worburn had long been concerned about their foul-tasting drinking water and the unexplained high incidence of leukemia deaths of the young children in their community. Anne Anderson, a mother whose son Jimmy died of leukemia in 1981...
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Civil Action Justice System
519 wordsA Civil Action is based upon a true story that Jonathan Harr, a former staff writer of New England Monthly describes a case that in the legal system that is fascinating and compelling. The story of a impracticable quest by an idealistic young personal-Injury lawyer, whose aim was to prove that two conglomerates, Beatrice Foods and W. R Grace, allegedly polluted the water in Woburn, Mass. a Boston suburb, with carcinogens. Jan had hoped that a victory would send a message to the boardrooms to Ame...
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A Civil Role Model
1,133 wordsThe word civil carries a lot of weight. The usage needs to be carefully considered when it's entered into a sentence or a phrase. Civil means a wide variation of things. It can be defined as a way to be observant of the forms required for good breeding. It can also be a means to the needs and affairs of the general public. However, the latter of the two definitions can also be stretched to include a definition of the private rights and the remedies sought by action or suit. The point is that the...
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Interstate Commerce Solid Waste
2,071 wordsWhen nine families on a back country road in rural Manor Township learned on one day of November 2000, that the Lancaster County Solid Waste Management Authority wanted their homes for future expansion of the county landfill, they were shocked and saddened. But emotions among many of the residents quickly turned to anger when they found out how Manor Township, without their knowledge, had quietly rezoned their properties for the expansion some eight months ago. And, to their dismay, they learned...
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