01:790:340 Lecture Notes - Lecture 19: Beatrice Foods, Cancer Cluster
15 Aug 2016
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Quick overview of civil procedure (from thursday"s outline) Introducing a civil action: book is a work of non-fiction these are all real people. B. don"t need to remember every detail, but do try to remember the details that are particularly telling to you: storytelling and perspective. D. journalism as a method for discovering truth: civil trials as a method for discovering truth, social science as a method for discovering truth. Overview of the case: what is the injury-harm alleged in anderson et al. v. w. r. grace et al. have, kids contracted leukemia. Sue number of companies that industrial plants near homes: suing because they think the water had been poisoned by these companies after the wells were opened. Beatrice foods (owner of the riley tannery), both located near the wells: example of a so-called toxic tort lawsuit. Trying to use civil litigation to hold polluters liable for the damage they caused.
