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A Civil Action won the National Book Critics Circle Award and the American Bar Association Silver Gavel Award, and was a finalist for the National Book Award. The book, a true story by Jonathan Harr, details lawyer Jan Schlichtmann's eight-year legal battle against corporations he accuses of contaminating groundwater in Woburn, Massachusetts, leading to a cluster of childhood leukemia cases. It explores the human tragedy, legal complexities, and the ultimate struggle between powerful corporations and a small group of families seeking justice
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