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<div><P>On July 6, 1944, the Big Top suddenly caught fire at a Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey circus performance in Hartford, Connecticut. The inferno killed 169 people, mostly women and children, and injured more than 550 others. Faced with hundreds of liability suits, the Greatest Show on Earth headed for bankruptcy and liquidation, and tort claimants were likely to receive northing. The dismal scenario was averted only when a small group of public-spirited Hartford attorneys fashioned a creative successful solution to one of the nation’s earliest mass torts. This nearly forgotten episode offers some valuable lessons for us today when litigation involving asbestos, the Dalkon Shield and other mass torts is yielding a dubious brand of justice for all. </P><P> </P><P>In this book Henry S. Cohn and David Bollier tell the story of the catastrophic circus fire and its remarkable legal aftermath. They describe how, with little guidance from existing case law and many quarrels and uncertainties, three enterprising lawyers secured a court-supervised receivership that kept the circus in business, enabling it to generate profits that could pay off the claims brought against it. A novel

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Author

Henry S Cohn; David Bollier

Publisher

Yale University Press

Published

2022

Language

EN

ISBN

9780300158052

Category

nonfiction