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Agent Orange on Trial: Mass Toxic Disasters in the Courts. Peter H. Schuck. Cambridge: Belknop Press of the Harvard University Press, 1986, 347 pp.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 July 2014

Chet Mitchell
Chet Mitchell
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Department of Law, Carleton University
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Canadian Journal of Law and Society / La Revue Canadienne Droit et Société , Volume 2 , 1987 , pp. 189 - 195
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Copyright © Canadian Law and Society Association 1987

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Notes

1. See Twight, C., America's Emerging Fascist Economy (New York: Arlington House Publishers, 1975)Google Scholar.

2. Pharr, S. and Badaracco, J., “Coping with Crisis: Environmental Regulation,” in America versus Japan (McGraw, T. K., ed., Boston: Harvard Business School Press, 1986), 229Google Scholar.

3. Ibid., 235–237.

4. In re ‘Agent Orange’ Product Liability Litigation, 597 F. Supp. 740 (E.D.N.Y. 1984), 611 F. Supp. 1223 (E.D.N.Y. 1985), 611 F. Supp. 1396 (E.D.N.Y. 1984).

5. Wall Street Journal, January 13, 1987, 1, column 1.

6. Schuck, Peter H., Agent Orange on Trial: Mass Toxic Disasters in the Courts (Cambridge, Mass.: Press of the Harvard University Press, 1986), 73Google Scholar.

7. Ibid., 80.

8. Ibid., 267.

9. Ibid., 234.

10. 597 F. Supp. 740, 833-834.

11. Allen v. United States, 588 F. Supp. 247, 412–415 (D. Utah 1984).

12. Schuck, , Agent Orange on Trial, 118Google Scholar.

13. Ibid., 112.

14. The settlement approval was appealed after Schuck's book was published. See Orloff, N., “Theories of Cancer and Rules of Causation,” Jurimetrics 27 (1987), 255, 258Google Scholar.

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16. Ibid., 197.

17. Ibid., 223.

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