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21) Midnight
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When a Manhattan judge quietly dies in his chambers on New Year's Eve, two financially strapped and secret-keeping employees resolve to conceal the death until after midnight so that they can retain their jobs for another year.
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"To become the first female Jewish Supreme Court Justice, the unsinkable Ruth Bader Ginsburg had to overcome countless injustices. Growing up in Brooklyn in the 1930s and '40s, Ginsburg was discouraged from working by her father, who thought a woman's place was in the home. Regardless, she went to Cornell University, where men outnumbered women four to one. There, she met her husband, Martin Ginsburg, and found her calling as a lawyer. Despite discrimination...
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New York Times Bestseller
Featured in the critically acclaimed documentary RBG
"It was beyond my wildest imagination that I would one day become the 'Notorious RBG." — Ruth Bader Ginsburg, 2019
She was a fierce dissenter with a serious collar game. A legendary, self-described "flaming feminist litigator" who made the world more equal. And an intergenerational icon affectionately
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In the summer of 2008 Kimberley Motley quit her job as a public defender in Milwaukee to join a program that helped train lawyers in war-torn Afghanistan. She was thirty-two at the time, a mother of three who had never travelled outside the United States.
What she brought to Afghanistan was a toughness and resilience which came from growing up in one of the most dangerous cities in the US, a fundamental belief in everyone's right to justice and an...
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In this unauthorized biography, the most authoritative ever written about the controversial Supreme Court Justice, Andrew Peyton Thomas (no relation) explores Clarence Thomas' remarkable rise from a childhood of poverty in segregated Georgia to the nation's highest court. In his attempt to understand what drives the elusive and sometimes enigmatic Justice, the author located and conducted the first-ever interview with Clarence Thomas' father, as well...
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"Born to an aspirational blue-collar family during the Great Depression, Constance Baker Motley was expected to find herself a good career as a hair dresser. Instead, she became the first black woman to argue a case in front of the Supreme Court, the first of ten she would eventually argue. The only black woman member in the legal team at the NAACP's Inc. Fund at the time, she defended Martin Luther King in Birmingham, helped to argue in Brown vs....
28) Hokus pokus
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After the members of the Sisterhood are exiled to a remote mountaintop, they get a panicked call from the Supreme Court Chief Justice Pearl Barnes requesting their help, so they must figure out how to sneak back into the United States.
29) Sandra Day O'Connor: how the first woman on the Supreme Court became its most influential justice
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Sandra Day O'Connor, America's first woman justice, became the axis on which the Supreme Court turned. She was called the most powerful woman in America, and it was often said that to gauge the direction of American law, one need look only to O'Connor's vote. Then, just one year short of a quarter century on the bench, she surprised her colleagues and the nation by announcing her retirement.Drawing on information from once-private papers of the justices,...
30) Hard row
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"As Judge Deborah Knott presides over a case involving a barroom brawl, it becomes clear that deep resentments over race, class, and illegal immigration are simmering just below the surface in the North Carolina countryside"--Provided by publisher.
31) The judge's list
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"In The Whistler, Lacy Stoltz investigated a corrupt judge who was taking millions in bribes from a crime syndicate. She put the criminals away, but only after being attacked and nearly killed. Three years later and approaching forty, she is tired of her work for the Florida Board on Judicial Conduct and ready for a change. Then she meets a mysterious woman who is so frightened she uses a number of aliases. Jeri Crosby's father was murdered twenty...
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The book details, from a personal and unique perspective, the history of the development and progress of some of the very significant civil rights and poverty law reform cases, several of which went all the way up to the United States Supreme Court. Not only will this book be enjoyable by attorneys and those familiar with the legal profession; but it also presents an interesting story for those who would enjoy reading about the portrayal of many connecting...
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Dans cet ouvrage axé sur le droit en vigueur au Québec, l'auteur présente les fondements de l'intervention législative et réglementaire dans le secteur du tourisme et analyse les principales règles de droit qui visent à protéger tant les consommateurs que les milieux d'accueil dans le contexte d'une activité touristique. Il établit quelques comparaisons avec des lois d'autres provinces ou d'autres pays et traite des efforts déployés à...
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John E. Parsons: An Eminent New Yorker in the Gilded Age is the captivating biography about the life and times of a man who was a major figure in the history of New York at the turn of the 20th century. An attorney, philanthropist, and reformer, Parsons held a position of respect among such Gilded Age barons as Morgan, Rockefeller and Carnegie, helped establish institutions that became the Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art and the...
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In the early 1960s, Jerry Kraig, an idealistic Cleveland lawyer, was retained by his boyhood mentor, Reuben Sturman, later known as the Czar of Pornography. Kraig was his First Amendment Coordinator. Little did Kraig know his representation would lead him into a nightmare legal battle resulting in Kraig's imprisonment to defraud the Federal Government of Sturman's taxes. The Kraig's were an average suburban family who had everything and lost it all....
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Charles A. Shaw grew up in a segregated African-American neighborhood in St. Louis. His tight-knit community supported him, and he was inspired to become first a teacher and then a lawyer. From there, he worked his way up to federal prosecutor and state judge before President Bill Clinton appointed him to the federal bench. Shaw quickly became dismayed by the inequality and severity of mandatory U.S. sentencing guidelines and how they affected young...
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John C. Sullivan, Jr. was a practicing attorney in Jackson, Mississippi for 58 years and a peer rated AV Preeminent Attorney by Martindale Hubble for many of those years. He is an Eagle Scout and a Vigil member of the Order
of the Arrow. He built a rustic cabin in the woods in Madison County, Mississippi at age15 and hunted, fished and trapped selling his pelts for extra spending money and was President of the Student Body of Jackson Central High...
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Ian Brown spent almost thirty years in the police force, rising through the ranks to work on some of the best-known crimes of the twentieth century.
From witnessing the brutality of the Kray twins to chasing the spoils from the Brink's-Mat gold bullion robbery, Brown was never too far away from someone's illicit deal or a hardened crook.
Renowned for being one of the luckiest members of the Sweeney (Flyinq Squad), he foiled London's most dangerous...
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Creighton's first love was always music, but after college he found himself performing in courtrooms rather than on stages or in concert halls. Inspired by the portrayal of Atticus Finch in the movie “To Kill a Mockingbird”, he went to law school to become a defense attorney, but his career path took an unanticipated turn. For nearly three decades, Creighton prosecuted many of Utah's most notorious criminal cases — cases which drew widespread...
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