The book states that civil law “is referred to as private law because it addresses the definition, regulation, and enforcement rights in cases in which both the person who has the right and the person who has the obligation are private individuals” (Fagin, 152). Many of the civil rights cases involve, not just an individual but a corporation or business. One of the most famous civil cases is Gottsdanker v. Cutter Laboratories. In 1954, Dr. Jonas Salk created a cure to end the Polio epidemic that killed thousands. Cutter Laboratories were responsible in mass producing the vaccine and within a year over 200 children contracted Polio from the vaccine itself. This lawsuit revealed that Cutter Laboratories had not followed Salk’s formula and were