Extended Reading
  • Bernadette 2022-01-27 08:21:09

    Viewing Western Litigation from the Jury System

    A system for generating jurors from citizens to participate in court trials. It originated in Athens and Rome, a slave-holding country, and was inherited by a few feudal countries in Europe in the Middle Ages, and prevailed in modern Western society. After the victory of the British bourgeois...

  • Laverna 2022-01-27 08:21:09

    The professional value of lawyers under the pursuit of profit

    A civil action is explained in the dictionary of the legal profession as "civil litigation". My major is journalism, and my understanding of the law is very limited, but in my opinion, although this film is very good in some legal procedures and related knowledge Professional, but the connotation...

  • Erica 2022-03-23 09:03:17

    Too pattern, too blunt. It's not really a success to adapt real events like this.

  • Gerry 2022-03-25 09:01:22

    I can't fault it, but it's too boring, too long and too long to read as a classwork...

A Civil Action quotes

  • [last lines]

    Bankruptcy Judge: Mr. Schlichtmann? Mr. Schlichtmann?

    Jan Schlichtmann: I'm sorry. Yes.

    Bankruptcy Judge: The purpose of these questions is not to embarass or humiliate you but rather to verify the information you've declared as your assets.

    Jan Schlichtmann: I understand.

    Bankruptcy Judge: Because what you're asking your creditors to believe with this petition is... well, it's hard to believe.

    Jan Schlichtmann: I know.

    Bankruptcy Judge: That after 17 years of practising law all you have to show for it is 14 dollars in a checking account a portable radio?

    Jan Schlichtmann: That's correct.

    Bankruptcy Judge: Where did it all go?

    Jan Schlichtmann: The money?

    Bankruptcy Judge: The money, the property, the personal belongings, the things one acquires in one's life, Mr. Schlichtmann. The things by which one measures one's life. What happened?

  • Jan Schlichtmann: [stating the constract settlement agreement terms to Jerome, William, and Neil] 25 million dollars cash, and another 25 million dollars to establish a research foundation, to study the links between hazard wastes and illness, and 1.5 million dollars per family, annually for thirty years.