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Plaintiff In A Civil Action

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Plaintiff is a person who brings a case against another in a court of law. In the movie a Civil Action, where 28 children diagnosed with acute lymphocytic leukemia after toxic chemicals were spilled into a nearby municipal wells. Once the families learned about the toxic chemicals they filed a suit against two local companies W.R. Grace & Co. and the Cryovac Plant. In the film, A Civil Action, Ann Anderson, the Canes family, Tombies, Sonas, Robins, and A Fieros are the plaintiffs (1). Jan Schlichtmann took on the eight million dollar case against these two companies, in order, to find some relief for the families. Through many hardships and plenty of bargains to both the attorneys and families to drop the case made this case one of the hardest
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