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Publisher
New Video
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Description
Analyzes and discusses so called "frivolous law suits" and the impact of tort reform on the United States judicial system. Discusses several cases and relates each to tort reform in the U.S.: Liebeck v. McDonald's Restaurants (public relations campaign to instigate tort reform); Colin Gourley's malpractice lawsuit and caps on damages; the prosecution of Mississippi Justice Oliver Diaz and judicial elections; Jamie Leigh Jones v. Halliburton Co. and...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Description
Clay Carter, a public defender, reluctantly takes the case of a young man charged with a random street killing, assuming it is just another of the many senseless murders that hit D.C. every week. As he digs into the background of his client, Clay stumbles on a conspiracy too horrible to believe. He suddenly finds himself in the middle of a complex case against one of the largest pharmaceutical companies in the world, looking at the kind of enormous...
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
1995-
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.7 - AR Pts: 31
Language
English
Description
A young Boston trial lawyer is drawn into a case involving two industrial chemical plants and a cluster of childhood leukemia victims that is to encompass nine difficult years and bring him to near bankruptcy
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Presents the story of determined environmental lawyer Kevin Thompson, who waged a seven-year legal battle against Massey Energy--the most powerful coal company in West Virginia--over clean drinking water for the residents of Mingo County.
"Set in Appalachian coal country, this “superb” (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette) legal drama follows one determined lawyer as he faces a coal industry giant in a seven-year battle over clean drinking water for a West...
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