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Author
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
"This is a book about the improbable: seeking legal relief for environmental pollution in contemporary China. It is a story involving judges, lawyers, and international groups as well as the individuals who file civil environmental lawsuits, people such as the village doctor who spent well over a decade suing a local chemical plant. The book offers a close-to-the-ground account of everyday justice and the factors that shape it. In a country known...
Author
Series
Legal aspects of sustainable development volume 10
Publisher
Martinus Nijhoff Publishers
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
46) Victims of environmental harm: rights, recognition and redress under national and international law
Author
Series
Publisher
Routledge
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
50) The precautionary principle in marine environmental law: with special reference to high risk vessels
Author
Publisher
Routledge
Pub. Date
c2013
Language
English
56) A civil action
Author
Publisher
Vintage
Pub. Date
1996.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.7 - AR Pts: 31
Lexile measure
1000L
Language
English
Author
Publisher
BenBella Books, Inc
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"One day in the small Mississippi town of Laurel, a 26-year-old expectant mom named Karen Street sat down at the edge of her bathtub--and felt her hip split in two. The episode was so bizarre it wasn't until later, after she saw the doctor, that she realized her bone disease was almost certainly linked to her father-in-law's business. Winston Street ran a machine shop that drilled the gunk out of pipes used by Chevron, Shell and other giants of the...
58) A civil action
Publisher
Touchstone Home Video
Pub. Date
[1999]
Language
English
Description
Jan Schlichtmann (Travolta) is a cynical, high-priced personal injury attorney who only takes big-money cases he can safely settle out of court. He takes on a case which at first appears straightforward, but soon becomes entangled in a labyrinthine legal battle involving industrial pollution, contaminated drinking water, and the deaths of innocent children in New England.
A high-priced personal injury attorney takes on a case that becomes an epic...
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Erin Brockovich meets Dark Waters in this propulsive and heart-wrenching legal drama set in Appalachian coal country, as one determined lawyer confronts a coal industry giant in a battle over clean drinking water for a West Virginia community--from Wall Street Journal reporter Kris Maher. For two decades, the water in the taps and wells of Mingo County didn't look, smell, or taste right. Could it be the root of the health problems--from kidney stones...