A civil action
by Jonathan Harr · first published 1995
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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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I suggest you consider reading a book called A Civil Action by Jonathan Harr. It's about a lawyer suing a large company over the deaths of children. Hint: He was vastly outspent and crushed. Don't watch the movie, the book is much better.
on “Apple takes legal action against small company with pear logo” ↗…to do with contaminated groundwater in Woburn, Massachusetts in the 1980s related to an statistically unusual increased level of Leukemia in the children there. The case was the basis for the book, A Civil Action, by Jonathan Harr, which was also turned into a subsequent movie of the same name, starring John Travolta. Both the book (and the movie) are actually quite good and worth checking out.
on “Rates of Parkinson’s disease are exploding. A common chemical may be to blame” ↗Related, the book A Civil Action by Jonathan Harr. Cancer clusters in children. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Civil_Action
on “100 People with rare cancers who attended same NJ high school demand answers” ↗Something many may not know is that beyond his own novels, Tracy was also deeply involved in Jonathan Harr's book, "A Civil Action." He and Harr were friends, and he told Harr about the courtroom case. Later, when Harr would get stuck, he worked with Harr to edit and give feedback on his drafts.
on “Tracy Kidder, Author of 'The Soul of a New Machine,' Dies at 80” ↗