A Civil Action | Jonathan Harr | Unanswered questions

A Civil Action | Jonathan Harr | Brilliant

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A Civil Action

	A Civil Action Jonathan Harr Vintage, 1996 - 502 pages average customer review:based on 342 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

Unanswered questions

1) Did anything from the space program or other related to space interests crash in the woods of Woburn on property later deemed polluted and which brought interest by NASA and the federal government to the area in 1963-64 also involving President John F. Kennedy?

2)Was John F. Kennedy going to make an announcement regarding circumstances in Woburn at Dealey Plaza before he was shot?

3) Why would WR Grace have former officials of the federal government on its board while Harr wrote and later released his book?

4)Did an economic civil war over federal funds brew between clashing space versus miltary interests which had national scope but major local impacts in the area?

5) Were any of the poor kids affected by the pollution enrolled in government-sponsored studies of various cutting edge leukemia treatments with some of the kids being lost and then later covered up due to the friction between health insurers and the Justice Department over cost feasibility of such treatments?

6) Were any of the kids from poor backgrounds related to principals in the Whitey Bulger case and was treatment of any kid or family members contingent on government service as informants?

7) Why was the Slichter Act not brought into play when the dumping in the area went on?

8) Were local residents deliberately exposed to contaminated water to cover up a much bigger event?

9) Was cutting edge chip implant technology used under mask of dental work by some of the treating hospitals mentioned in this book to track experimental treatment subjects?

10) What was Trans-Sonic corp., of which the chair of the "Save oru Shipyard Committee" was its head and a Woburn resident and did any of its products end up in the USS Thresher prior to its fateful journey?

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Brilliant

Who knew that a story that revolves around document discovery and settlement negotiations could be such a page-turner? But, that's what it is. Jonathan Harr tells the compelling story of the (thanks to this book perhaps) famous Woburn Massachusetts environmental dumping case from the perspective of the plaintiffs' attorney, Jan Schlichtmann. Harr takes the reader through every high and low that Schlichtmann experiences over the period of several years that he worked on this case. Every law student should read this book (and probably will). There's a lot to learn about discovery, civil procedure, and tort law, among other things. As is usually the case, you should skip the movie and read this book.

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Required read for law school

I listened to and read this book for a Civ Pro class for my first year of law school, and it made the subject a heck of a lot more interesting. I listened to this adaptation before reading the book, and it turned out to be a very good adaptation. If you're needing to get every detail out of the book the way that I did for class, stick to reading it. If you're just looking for a good and interesting listen, this audiobook is it.

Butterfly effect?

Is there a link between agents,informants,victims and predators in the Whitey Bulger case and this local cancer tragedy?

Was a child victim of leukemia enrolled in a government sponsored experimental treatment of bone marrow transplants and lost in state child care? Could such a child or children be among the oldest living bone marrow transplant survivors,something concealed because of the bitter feud between the Dept of Justice and health insurers who do not want to cover these treatments,claiming they are experimental because survivors of X duration do not exist? Would such survivors be at risk or be

Does the feud between parties in the Bulger case originate from feuding over federal funds in the Kennedy administration of the early 1960s in Massachusetts? Did parties on either side of the Bulger case have ties to each respective feuding side during the upsurge in the space program in Massachusetts while the military was experiencing reductions in the region?

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a decent read

I had hoped that there would be more details on the epidemiological fieldwork that was associated with this investigation, but there was not too much of interest in that respect. Nevertheless I enjoyed the read, and it really made me think about our legal system and corporate responsibility. The author does a good job of bringing the characters to life, and I could empathize with many of them. Overall I found the story to be pretty disallusioning and sometimes depressing, but well worth the time I spent reading it.

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