Entertainment & Sports
Nov. 4, 2022
Stream it Tonight! A Civil Action (1999)
Unlike many courtroom movies, A Civil Action allows viewers to peek behind the curtains of lawyers' strategies.
Paul Bergman
Professor Emeritus
UCLA School of Law
Email: bergman@law.ucla.edu
Paul continues teaching evidence.
Michael Asimow
Professor
UCLA School of Law
Email: asimow@law.ucla.edu
Michael is Dean's Executive professor of law at Santa Clara Law School, teaching contracts as well as law and popular culture.
Why watch? A lawyer gets in too deep when he tries to prove that two manufacturers polluted a river and poisoned a city's drinking water.
Jan Schlichtmann (John Travolta) represents residents in Woburn, Massachusetts in a lawsuit against W.R. Grace and Beatrice Foods. The lawsuit alleges that their manufacturing plants illegally buried chemical waste near the river that provides Woburn's water. The chemicals polluted the river and c...
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