Leo T. reviewed The Buffalo Creek Disaster : How the survivors of one of the worst disasters in coal-mining history brought suit against the coal company--and won on + 1775 more book reviews
The Buffalo Creek Valley is in West Virginia and his is about a 1972 failure to contain a lake of waste from a coal washing operation. 125 people in the valley died, this being unusual in that most were women and kids, unlike most mining deaths (of workers).
Mr. Stern, an attorney with some experience, was working for a D.C. firm that allowed one lawyer a year to take a 'sabbatical' and work on a project of the public interest. Despite the owner Pittston, local politicians, and the governor were all against the victims, he brought about a quite amazing victory in court.
The book is mostly about the legal moves and the character of the plaintiffs (and of the defendants).
No index.
Mr. Stern, an attorney with some experience, was working for a D.C. firm that allowed one lawyer a year to take a 'sabbatical' and work on a project of the public interest. Despite the owner Pittston, local politicians, and the governor were all against the victims, he brought about a quite amazing victory in court.
The book is mostly about the legal moves and the character of the plaintiffs (and of the defendants).
No index.
