civil action
In 1979, two wells supplying the drinking water for the small New England town of East Worburn, in Massachusetts, were found to be dumping industrial solvents. At this same time in Massachusetts, there were other investigations of industrial dumping. The residents of Worburn had long been concerned about their foul-tasting drinking water and the unexplained high incidence of leukemia deaths of the young children in their community.Anne Anderson, a mother whose son Jimmy died of leukemia in 1981, spearheaded the efforts of eight Worburn families to determine the parties responsible for their environmental tragedy. Eventually "mega corporations" Beatrice Foods and W.R. Grace & Co. were identified as the owners of the properties that may have been the possible source of most of the pollutants. Jan Schilctmann, a personal-injury lawyer, and his small law firm were hired to sue these two major corporations. He was hired to sue them for the damage arising from the pollution of the town's drinking water. Jerome Facher, was the chief litigator at a venerable Boston law firm, were he was in charge of representing Beatrice Foods. William Cheeseman was appointed to defend the interests of the international conglome
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Approximate Word count = 1269
Approximate Pages = 5 (250 words per page double spaced)
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