A Civil Action

Novel by Jonathan Harr

Blurb

A Civil Action is a 1996 work of non-fiction by Jonathan Harr about a water contamination case in Woburn, Massachusetts, in the 1980s. The book became a best-seller and won the National Book Critics Circle Award for nonfiction.
The case is Anderson v. Cryovac. The first reported decision in the case is at 96 F.R.D. 431.
A film by the same name was based on the book that was produced in 1998, starring John Travolta as Jan Schlichtmann and Robert Duvall as Jerome Facher.