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A Civil Action
By Jonathon Harr, Marty Asher (Editor) - Non-Fiction
This riveting work of legal reportage is at once the story of an emotionally explosive lawsuit and a searing expose of the American legal system. When young lawyer Jan Schlichtmann initiates a civil suit against two of the nation's largest corporations who stand accused of the deaths of children in a Massachusetts suburb, he finds himself locked in an epic struggle that costs him his home, his reputation, and very nearly his sanity.
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No Matter How Loud I Shout: A Year in the Life of Juvenile Court
By Edward Humes - Non-Fiction
At a time when an epidemic of violence has left America afraid for--and afraid of--its children, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Edward Humes takes a poignant look at a year in the life of Los Angeles Juvenile Court, providing a vivid portrait of the children who pass through it.
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Dead Even
By Brad Meltzer - Fiction
From the bestselling author of "The Tenth Justice" comes a hot new read. A young Manhattan assistant D.A. is faced with a choice far more complicated than she could ever expect when she takes on a new case and is given the ultimatum: Win the case or her husband will be killed.
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The Right to Privacy
By Jonathon Harr, Marty Asher (Editor) - Non-Fiction
The authors of the national bestseller In Our Defense survey hundreds of cases in which ordinary citizens have battled the intrusions of government, industry, the news media, and their own neighbors. Out of these eye-opening narratives, Kennedy and Alderman present a timely, historically informed, and eminently useful look at the state of our right to be left alone.
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Jurismania : The Madness of American Law
By Paul F. Campos - Non-Fiction
Clearly written and laced with a delicious wit, this lacerating and lively critique of America's bloated legal system reveals the folly of our addiction to law.
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Simple Rules for a Complex World
By Richard A. Epstein - Non-Fiction
The Wall Street Journal, John H. Fund: Epstein ... believes that the traditional common law is actually more attuned to the modern world ... He argues that the more complex the world, the less bureaucrats and lawmakers can know about how everything interacts, and the more perverse and inefficient the law will become ... Epstein's relentlessly logical arguments tell us why we should return to the tried-and-true rules of the common law.
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Serpico
By Peter Maas - Non-Fiction
In the late sixties, the New York City Police Department was immersed in corruption that had been a tradition for over a hundred years. Police payoffs, protection, and drug runner shakedowns were common, enforced by the department's unwritten code of silence. But Frank Serpico, a Brooklyn-born, Italian cop with long hair and an attitude, refused to go along with the system. Risking his health, career, and nearly his life, he dared to expose the bad cops and delivered the greatest single blow to corruption in the history of the NYPD.
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Getting Away With Murder: How Politics Is Destroying the Criminal Justice System
By Susan Estrich - Non-Fiction
Justice isn't blind. It's winking. This is the message Americans get when, against the weight of overwhelming evidence, high-profile suspects go free; when there are special sentencing rules for battered wives or adult survivors of childhood abuse; when murderers are released from prison to rape and murder again, and politicians make political hay out of these cases; when lawyers look less like servants of higher values and more like profit seekers reaping fortunes by helping clients get away with murder.
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Lawyerland : What Lawyers Talk About When They Talk About Law
By Lawrence Joseph - Non-Fiction
Lawrence Joseph brings an unerring ear for dialogue, a cunning artistry, and a prosecutor's radar for loaded testimony to a series of rangy, irreverent conversations with downtown lawyers. These lawyers are by turns grandiose and full of self-doubt, intelligent yet crude, wise about the work they do and innocent of their own egotism and moral compromise. This is a uniquely fresh and insightful--and entertaining--book about American law.
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Great Government Goofs: Over 200 Loopy Laws, Hilarious Screw-Ups and Acts-Idents of Congress
Leland H. III Gregory, Leland H. Gregory - Non-Fiction
The New York Times bestselling author of America's Dumbest Criminals takes on the Feds on this unofficial guide to the hilarious screw-ups the government doesn't want anyone to know about: i.e. a federal computer once listed everyone in Hartford, Connecticut, as dead and 80,000 buttons promoting safety were recalled because they were small enough to be swallowed, the pin was too sharp, and the paint was toxic. 20 line drawings.
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