trials (offenses against the environment)

Chronicles the fight of the Environmental Protection Agency and the U.S. Department of Justice to convict Idaho fertilizer plant owner Allan Elias of nearly killing twenty-year-old employee Scott Dominguez, whom he ordered to clean out a storage tank that supposedly contained only mud and water but was laced with cyanide.

Billionaire Carl Trudeau, upset over a shocking verdict against his chemical company by a Mississippi jury and convinced that the Supreme Court will not be friendly to his appeal, decides to take the less expensive route of purchasing a seat on the Court by recruiting, financing, manipulating, marketing, and molding an unsuspecting young candidate.