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22 Feb 2008, 9:59 am
Updating this ILB entry from Feb. 19th: The third West Virginia justice under fire in the Massey Energy case, Justice Brent Benjamin, announced yesterday that he would not recuse himself. [read post]
20 Feb 2008, 9:13 pm
* John Grisham's "Too Dumb for Dickie" theory encounters some serious strain [Rossmiller and again] * Mississippi legislature won't give AG Jim Hood authority to wiretap his enemies suspected white-collar criminals. [read post]
19 Feb 2008, 10:02 pm
Following up on this post, I finished reading John Grisham's The Appeal this past weekend. [read post]
19 Feb 2008, 6:43 am
A quote from NPR in this Feb. 11th ILB entry about the West Virginia Supreme Court:Three of the five state Supreme Court justices have been asked to recuse themselves from rehearing a case in March involving one of the biggest businessmen in the state, Don Blankenship of Massey Coal. [read post]
18 Feb 2008, 12:47 am
 Oh, right, the WSJ Law Blog's interview with novelist John Grisham right after the Scruggs indictment. [read post]
16 Feb 2008, 6:13 am
Forced confessions and the subornation of evidence and testimony is a routine and regular occurance institutionalized within the defense establishment's system of discipline.Civilian criminal convictions in our time are consistent with our understanding of the human condition that even when seated a jury does not guarantee a defendant--falsely accused--safe refuge or full protection.Author/attorney John Grisham arouses deep concern (in his non-fiction work, THE INNOCENT MAN)… [read post]
11 Feb 2008, 1:11 pm
" The summary: The plot of John Grisham's latest novel has already come to life, he says, in West Virginia. [read post]
11 Feb 2008, 8:21 am
Anyone who is even mildly interested in the issue of tort reform should pick up a copy of John Grisham's new novel "The Appeal. [read post]
9 Feb 2008, 6:44 pm
Judges Asked to Recuse in Massey Coal Case": This audio segment (RealPlayer required) featuring John Grisham appeared on yesterday evening's broadcast of NPR's "All Things Considered. [read post]
4 Feb 2008, 10:50 am
Mega-best-selling author John Grisham doesn't deliver public speeches often. [read post]
29 Jan 2008, 5:58 am
In his latest book, John Grisham takes on a topic that has been the subject of a good number of recent political science studies - judicial elections - and doesn’t paint a pretty picture. [read post]
28 Jan 2008, 9:17 pm
* With what might seem like startlingly bad timing, Scruggs chum/novelist (and campaign donation co-bundler, if that's the right term) John Grisham is just out with a new fiction entitled The Appeal, whose thesis, to judge by Janet Maslin's oddly favorable review in the Times, is that the real problem with the Mississippi judicial system is that salt-of-the-earth plaintiff's lawyers are hopelessly outgunned in the task of trying to get friendly figures elected to… [read post]
28 Jan 2008, 7:37 pm
"John Grisham's Bad Guys Poison Rivers, Buy Judges": Charles Taylor of Bloomberg News provides this book review. [read post]
28 Jan 2008, 1:41 pm
John Grisham’s “The Appeal,” his first legal thriller in three years, has gotten solid reviews — here, here and here. [read post]
28 Jan 2008, 11:27 am
Perhaps I’m in the minority, but I can’t stomach most of the John Grisham I’ve read. [read post]
28 Jan 2008, 4:45 am
"If You Can't Win the Case, Buy an Election and Get Your Own Judge": Today in The New York Times, Janet Maslin has this review of John Grisham's new book, "The Appeal. [read post]
25 Jan 2008, 7:02 pm
In bookstores on Tuesday, January 29, 2008, "The Appeal" by John Grisham: You can read an excerpt at this link. [read post]
25 Jan 2008, 1:18 pm
We are celebrating tonight with a gala dinner featuring John Grisham and Cris Collinsworth (Class... [read post]
25 Jan 2008, 1:18 pm
We are celebrating tonight with a gala dinner featuring John Grisham and Cris Collinsworth (Class... [read post]
18 Jan 2008, 3:06 am
Since then, he has maintained he did not commit the Peoria murders.Now, he has been paroled, and more than 200 high-profile supporters -- including former federal prosecutors and author John Grisham --are asking Gov. [read post]