Opening And Closing : An Epidemic Of Different Types Of Leukemia

Plaintiffs assert that Defendants’ chemical land farming operation near their homes that are polluting the air violates Subtitle C of the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act 42 and Section 112 of the Clean Air Act. Plaintiffs contend that these human rights violations are demonstrated by the fact that, (1) the Defendants failed to operate their pollution control equipment and (2) the Defendants did not acquire a permit from the United States Environmental Protection Agency or the Louisiana Department of Environmental Quality to store hazardous waste in Alsen, Louisiana.

Issue: One day, Kelly Mala went to Crown Bay Marina to buy some fuel for his boat, so he asked a Crown Bay Marina’s attendant to watch his boat while he purchased fuel. However, when he returned, mala saw his boat’s tank was overflowing and fuel was spilling into the boat and into the water. Then Mala began cleaning up the fuel, but as he pulled away from the marina, his boat’s engine caught fire and exploded. Mala was thrown into the water and severely burning. His boat was unsalvageable. Therefore, Kelly Mala sued Crown Bay Marina after his boat exploded.

There are few things in life that could be worse than loosing you child to such a horrible disease as leukemia. One can only imagine having such a tragedy repeat itself throughout you community time after time. To compound such tragedies, imagine being poisoned yourself and having to fight some of the largest local corporations to prove the truth and get it stopped. This is the community setting for Jonathan Harr's true-to-life legal thriller A Civil Action. The book was an award winner for "Best Seller" in 1995 and was named the 1995 National Book Critics Circle Award.

Currently, there is a lawsuit pending in Vigo Superior Court which is alleging that negligence by a property owner contributed to the death of three people. These deaths were a result of a fire which engulfed a rental property. The lawsuit claims that both the property owner and the property agent had failed to ensure that there were functional smoke detectors installed within the home. This home was occupied by Kayla Lewis, her daughter Gabrielle, and her stepbrother Jeremiah. Gabrielle age 2, was pronounced dead at the scene amongst the early morning fire at the home. Jeremiah age 5, was transported from the scene but later died at the hospital. Gabrielle's sister Chloe age 3, and her mother Kayla were both hospitalized due to injuries sustained in the fire. Kayla made it to the hospital, but later died.

Civil Action, a 1998 film made with Paramount Pictures, tells the story of pollution in Woburn Massachusetts, a small town, that has contaminated many children, adults, and other. This resulted in a law suit against W. R. Grace and J. Riley’s Corporations which was said that the two corporations had dumped trichloroethylene into the rivers which would infect their water supply causing disease and problems with quality as well. Statistics say in the movie that twelve kids got leukemia, and eight of those twelve died. Jan Schlichtmann the main attorney and plaintiffs at first argued about wanting to even do the case and how they’re facing a large company and this could be a very risky case. In reason, on his way back towards the city after telling Anne Anderson about how Jan couldn’t participate in such a risky case he was pulled over by the bridge were he walked and saw the river and how contaminated.

Accordingly, since Clendenin Bros., the policy language has been broadened—seemingly in response to Clendenin Bros. and similar cases—to include not only environmental pollution, but also, substances that are “harmful or toxic to persons [or] property.” The significance of this distinction was recognized in Clipper Mill Fed., LLC v. Cincinnati Ins. Co, 2010 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 112172 (D.Md. 2010), where a landlord/insured alleged that damages caused by “[t]oxic and dangerous airborne pollutants” attributable to a malfunctioning HVAC unit gave rise to a claim against the insured by a tenant. Id. at 3. In that case, although the pollution at issue was not “environmental,” the District of Maryland observed that:

Zallian’s (1997), A Civil Action chronicles the wrongful death suit fronted by personal-injury attorney Jan Schlichtmann against W.R. Grace and Company and Beatrice Foods for their roles in discarding toxic chemicals into the water supply of the Woburn, Massachusetts; allegedly causing the deaths of eight children, several adults and illnesses of countless others (Rainer, 1999). Seeking answers, an apology and an environmental overhaul; the families of the deceased children sought the legal counsel Schlichtmann, Conway and Crowley.

Plaintiff further asserts that the Defendant breached its duty of care to her by: (1) “failing to fix a hazardous condition within a reasonable time;” (2) “failing to adequately warn plaintiff of a hazardous condition;” and (3) “otherwise failing to exercise reasonable and due care under the circumstances.” The Plaintiff is seeking compensatory damages in the amount of two hundred thousand dollars, plus interest and costs.

Thesis/argument statement OR main idea statement: Cancer affects children and their families in many ways.

A Civil Action is based upon a true story that Jonathan Harr, a former staff writer of New England Monthly describes a case that in the legal system that is fascinating and compelling. The story of a impracticable quest by an idealistic young personal-Injury lawyer, whose aim was to prove that two conglomerates, Beatrice Foods and W.R Grace, allegedly polluted the water in Woburn ,Mass. a Boston suburb, with carcinogens. Jan had hoped that a victory would send a message to the boardrooms to America and felt that the culture of Leukemia in Woburn guaranteed his success. He never realized that he would be comforted with problems in the justice system.

In Boston, Massachusetts, small groups of families sued US companies due to the constant leukemia and health deaths, caused by the poisonous chemicals dumped in the water, which got flowed into the communities water supply. Anne Anderson discovered that her child had leukemia. Searching for the cause, its discovered that there's a cluster of children with leukemia. Anderson, as well as the other families affected by the water, evolve into a law suit against two large companies.

In “A Civil Action” movie, a group of families (Toomeys, Auferios, Andersons, Kaynes and Robbins) from Woburn, Massachusetts hired Jan Schlichtmann, a personal-injury lawyer, to help represent them against the local tannery because multiple children in the town had died of leukemia and the families believed the local water supply was responsible.(1) The residents claimed that the water was, “foul and ill-smelling”. (1) Mr Schlichtmann knew it was a orphan case because no other law firm would want to spend the capital needed to prove the town’s wells were contaminated. After visiting the town, he agreed to fight for these families mainly for the money,

Acute lymphocytic leukemia (ALL), a fast growing cancer that can spread throughout the body very quickly and be life threatening if left untreated and is caused by lymphocyte defects. To understand ALL, it is necessary to understand the cardiovascular system. The human cardiovascular system consists of heart, blood and blood vessels. The heart is a muscle that pumps blood through two major blood vessels; arteries carry oxygenated blood away from the heart whereas veins carry deoxygenated blood towards the heart. Blood transports oxygen, carbon dioxide, nutrients, wastes, and hormones. It provides protection against many infections, eliminates microorganisms and cancer cells, neutralizes toxins and initiates clotting. It also regulates fluid balance, balancing normal pH levels in the tissue, and controls temperature (Marieb and Hoehn 632-633).

Jack woke up one morning not feeling well. He felt very weak and could not get out of bed. His mother decided to take him to the doctors. The doctors took many tests to figure out what was making him feel that way. After about an hour or two the doctors got the results back from a blood test. Results that would change Jack’s childhood for the worse. Jack has been diagnosed with Leukemia, a blood cancer. Of course, Jack was not sure what that meant but, his parents became worried beyond belief with the long road ahead of them. Scientists and researchers were all involved in the discovery of Leukemia cancer, which increased knowledge of this cancer, decreased deaths and discovered treatments, and started charity groups to fund research.

Leukemia is the most common cancer diagnosed among children with its types being Acute Lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) or Acute Myelogenous leukemia (AML). Children are more commonly diagnosed with ALL and although the survival rate with treatment has increased to 90% over the years (depending on how developed the cancer was among diagnosis) (Acute, 2015), there are many factors that contribute to a child developing or dying from this horrible disease. This review looks at 6 sources that discuss many different factors that have led to many children being diagnosed and or dying from leukemia. The main factors that will be outlined in this study are a mother’s dietary intake during fetal development, external and internal factors that contribute