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The View From The Bottomless Pit: Truth, Myth, And Irony In A Civil Action, Jerome P. Facher
The View From The Bottomless Pit: Truth, Myth, And Irony In A Civil Action, Jerome P. Facher
Seattle University Law Review
This Article offers the observations, analysis, and commentary of Beatrice's chief trial counsel about some of the important issues and rulings in Anderson, the accuracy of the events reported in A Civil Action, and the misimpressions created by the book's undoubted tilt in the plaintiffs' direction. Wherever possible, this Article's effort to balance the scales relies on court records, trial and hearing transcripts, and on other actual trial materials in Anderson to present the relevant facts and events in the context in which they arose. Contrary to the erroneous impression of justice gone astray created by the book …
The Woburn Case: Is There A Better Way?, Michael B. Keating
The Woburn Case: Is There A Better Way?, Michael B. Keating
Seattle University Law Review
This essay suggests that the intense public interest in the best selling novel, A Civil Action, and the subsequent film should be directed less to Academy Awards nominations and more toward ways to improve the methods that our legal system employs to resolve complex and important disputes.