Summary of Gerald M. Stern's The Buffalo Creek Disaster

Everest Media

Description

Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book.
Sample Book Insights:
#1 In the early 1960s, I traveled around Mississippi, Alabama, and Louisiana trying voting discrimination cases for the government. I was too shy to ask for something for myself, but I was always able to speak up for others.
#2 I was too shy to ask for something for myself, but I was always able to speak up for others. I ended up representing the Buffalo Creek survivors in a case that made me a folk hero in the hills of West Virginia.
#3 Charles Cowan, Jr. , the local football hero, was elected chairman of the Buffalo Creek Grade School committee that was going to file a lawsuit against the coal company.
#4 The Buffalo Creek disaster exposed the shortcomings of private law firms and how they fail to protect the little guy.

Sujets

• Law
• Droit et juridique
• Civil Law

Informations

• Publié par: Everest Media LLC
• Date de parution: 10 septembre 2022
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9798350001303
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 1 Mo

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Insights on Gerald M. Stern's The Buffalo Creek Disaster
Contents Insights from Chapter 1 Insights from Chapter 2 Insights from Chapter 3
Insights from Chapter 1

#1

In the early 1960s, I traveled around Mississippi, Alabama, and Louisiana trying voting discrimination cases for the government. I was too shy to ask for something for myself, but I was always able to speak up for others.

#2

I was too shy to ask for something for myself, but I was always able to speak up for others. I ended up representing the Buffalo Creek survivors in a case that made me a folk hero in the hills of West Virginia.

#3

Charles Cowan, Jr. , the local football hero, was elected chairman of the Buffalo Creek Grade School committee that was going to file a lawsuit against the coal company.

#4

The Buffalo Creek disaster exposed the shortcomings of private law firms and how they fail to protect the little guy.

#5

The dam broke because of flooding, which was an act of God. The state is responsible because it failed to drain the black waste water from behind the dams, which would have killed the trout stocked in Buffalo Creek.

#6

The Buffalo Creek disaster was an example of how corporations use acts of God to escape liability.

#7

Rogers C. B. Morton, the Secretary of the Interior, said that the Federal Coal Mine Health and Safety Act of 1969 did not apply to the Buffalo Creek disaster because it was an act of God. The congressman who drafted the act, however, argued that the federal government had no responsibility under its statutes to make coal mining safe.

#8

In 1969, a dam broke in West Virginia, killing 29 people. The state of West Virginia was sued by the victims’ families, who claimed the state was to blame for not enforcing its own laws. The governor of West Virginia publicly blamed the media for the disaster, calling them irresponsible.

#9

The federal government eventually sued the coal company, but only after a series of lawsuits and protests from the victims’ families.

#10

The Buffalo Creek disaster exposed the shortcomings of private law firms, and how they fail to protect the little guy.

#11

The state of West Virginia was sued by the victims’ families after a dam broke in 1969, killing 29 people. The state was sued by the federal government because the state had not enforced its own coal mine safety laws.

#12

The Federal Coal Mine Health and Safety Act of 1969 did not apply to the Buffalo Creek disaster because it was an act of God, meaning the federal government had no responsibility to make coal mining safe.

#13

The families of the victims of the 1969 Buffalo Creek dam disaster sued the state of West Virginia, which was eventually sued by the federal government because the state had not enforced its own coal mine safety laws.

#14

The Buffalo Creek dam disaster exposed the shortcomings of private law firms, and how they fail to protect the little guy.

#15

I had to tell the West Virginia families that I couldn’t offer them any hope of immediate success in a lawsuit against Pittston. If they sued Pittston, they had to know they’d be in for a long fight.

#16

The state of West Virginia was sued by the families of those killed in a dam break, and was sued by the federal government because the state had not enforced its own coal mine safety laws.

#17

The families of the victims of the 1969 Buffalo Creek dam disaster su