A Civil Action News

The American Library puts a twist to their Saturday matinee, and will host a storytelling programme in lieu of the afternoon film.

Although his comic persona is often smug, occasionally overbearing and sometimes even mannered, the multi-talented Stephen Fry is quite unlike that in real life.

Remember the 1998 movie "A Civil Action" starring John Travolta as lawyer Jan Schlichtmann and Robert Duvall as the pragmatic attorney Facher? Note the news report on Rebecca Morlock who noticed what she calls "a green goo" seeping out of the ground below a former zinc-smelting plant in the town of Spelter.

Sony Studios has decided to shelve the production of a movie by Steven Soderbergh, starring Brad Pitt and about the baseball book Moneyball only days before the production was set to begin.

In a city made famous by a tea party, a group of lawyers is arguing anew against taxation without representation.

A lawyer made famous by the book and movie "A Civil Action" has filed a class-action lawsuit claiming tolls collected on the Massachusetts Turnpike are an illegal tax.

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A group of Boxford residents has hired "A Civil Action" attorney Jan Schlichtmann to fight the town and state over polluted wells along Interstate 95.

A graduate of The University of Western Ontario, who was an expert witness in a complex U.S. legal case involving water contamination, alleged to have caused cancer in children, will return to his alma mater on Friday, May 1 as part of the Faculty of Engineering's Distinguished Lecture Series.