 According to the film reviewer, what was the result of the court case in "A Civil Action"?
But Malick, a certified intellectual and the Pynchonesque figure who directed Badlands and Days of Heaven in the 1970s and then disappeared, is in a different philosophical universe from Steven Spielberg. A true work of art owes us more than literal horrors, and Malick obliges by making his theater of war the setting for nothing less than a meditation on the existence of God. He speaks the movie's epitaph, "Darkness and light, strife and love: Are they the workings of one mind, the feature of the same face? Malick's conception of consciousness distributes it among the animate and inanimate alike; almost every object is held up for rapturous contemplation.
 Schlichtmann lost the court case by attempting to extend the crimes of Beatrice & W.R. Grace to the crimes of the court system
 Facher lost the court case because he did not take Schlichtmann as a serious opponent, and ultimately overlooked a key piece of evidence  Facher manipulated his way to winning the court case by bribing the parents of the children who died from consuming the carcinogenic water supply  Schlichtmann lost the court case by attempting to extend the crimes of Beatrice & W.R. Grace to the crimes of the court system  Schlichtmann won the court case, but bankrupted himself and his law firm in pursuit of justice that couldn't bring his clients what they really wanted -- the lives of their children back