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A Civil Action (Main Characters (Year Movie was made (The movie was made…
A Civil Action
Main Characters
Jan Schlichtmann - The prosecuting attorney against W.R. Grace and J.R. Tannery. Was a personal injury attorney.
Jerome Facher - The defendant who was the lawyer for Beatrice foods.
William Cheeseman - The defendant who was the lawyer for
W.R Grace.
Al Love - The worker at W.R Grace that admitted the company may have been at fault.
Anne Anderson - One of the parents filling the case who's son died of leukemia.
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Plot
The plot of A Civil Action took place in the small town of Woburn, Massachusetts when toxic chemicals got into the water supply of the city and lead to the to multiple children getting leukemia and dying. The parents of these children wanted an apology and compensation with the deaths and suffering of their children.After a multitude of lawyers saw their case and concluded it would go nowhere a personal injury lawyer took the case seeing money in it with two larger companies in the suit. The case starts going downhill for Jan after the lose the case to Beatrice and he ends up losing everything to W.R. Grace and only making it out with 8 million dollars for the family's.
Key Moment
A key moment of the movie is when the defendant of Beatrice offered Jan an offer to settle the case with a settlement of 20 million dollars and he didn't take it.If he took this he could have both payed the families and kept his office and house instead he came out with nothing. I think that's when he truly lost.
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Ethical Dilemma
Al Love Ethical Dilemma
Al's Ethical Dilemma was that was the place he was employed with, his neighbors worked with him and they were mad for him talking. And he made the decision to talk after what seemed like he saw his kids drinking the water from the town.
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Jans Ethical Dilemma
Jan's Ethical Dilemma was weather or not he should continue the case or settle. He made the decision after thinking about the pain and suffering that the family's actually faced and wanting to continue the case for them.
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WhistleBlower
Al Love and one of his other work associates where the whistle blowers in this movie. They talked cause they saw the damage the companies truly did.
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CleanWater Act
Passed in 1972 the clean water act was made to protect people for polluted water and regulate pollutants in water.
Contaminated Water Case
Federal lawsuit filed over drinking water contamination on Whidbey. A lady filed lawsuit over the contaminated water made toxic by firefighter foam used in her area.
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