Well-known Florida trial lawyer Yerrid here presents eight of his most important cases on medical malpractice, liability, maritime catastrophe, tobacco, intellectual property, and other areas of law. He details his personal experiences with the clients, his preparation for litigation, and the trials themselves. Summaries of the cases and lengthy excerpts from the trails are included.

Virginia is a slave. She's always been a slave, but she hasn't let her low place keep her down. Instead she strives to do good and surpass those around her, surprising her masters. Now she's been given a job that could gain her freedom. But can she really accept freedom for only herself? Shouldn't all other slaves be free too? Journey with Virginia as she helps to free the kingdom from the deceit and evil that entangles it to let justice and good finally win. Evangeline's come to Gorth to visit her dear friend after years of separation. Her joy at this event is short lasting though. It becomes glaringly apparent that the kingdom and friends she left behind years ago have changed forever. She can only wonder if they will ever return to what they once were.

Al Street. Once a policeman, now a Private Investigator. Irreverent - Immoral - Impulsive. Prone to internal conflict. A complicated individual whose experience in life has made him cynical. A fishing boat goes missing with its crew including the estate agent who likes to go fishing. No trace. No wreckage. It seems to have completely vanished even though there were other boats within the vicinity. On board were a crew of three. Two lads who were the real fishermen and an estate agent who worked at fishing in his spare time. Al Street is tasked by the missing estate agent's wife with finding him and the missing boat. . A tale of murder, kidnapping; deception; a semi-retired London villain; and many other interesting and real characters. Street embarks upon a darkish journey from problem to solution. However, it is a journey that does have its lighter moments. One that takes him from London to Hastings and its environs, back to London before finally ending back in Hastings

This book is about the great moral issues underlying many of the headline-making political controversies of our times. It is not a comforting book but a book about disturbing and dangerous trends. The Quest for Cosmic Justice shows how confused conceptions of justice end up promoting injustice, how confused conceptions of equality end up promoting inequality, and how the tyranny of social visions prevents many people from confronting the actual consequences of their own beliefs and policies. Those consequences include the steady and dangerous erosion of fundamental principles of freedom -- amounting to a quiet repeal of the American revolution. The Quest for Cosmic Justice is the summation of a lifetime of study and thought about where we as a society are headed -- and why we need to change course before we do irretrievable damage.

In this remarkable legal page-turner, Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist Barry Siegel recounts the dramatic, decades-long saga of Bill Macumber, imprisoned for thirty-eight years for a double homicide he denies committing. In the spring of 1962, a school bus full of students stumbled across a mysterious crime scene on an isolated stretch of Arizona desert: an abandoned car and two bodies. This brutal murder of a young couple bewildered the sheriff 's department of Maricopa County for years. Despite a few promising leads—including several chilling confessions from Ernest Valenzuela, a violent repeat offender—the case went cold. More than a decade later, a clerk in the sheriff 's department, Carol Macumber, came forward to tell police that her estranged husband had confessed to the murders. Though the evidence linking Bill Macumber to the incident was questionable, he was arrested and charged with the crime. During his trial, the judge refused to allow the confession of now-deceased Ernest Valenzuela to be admitted as evidence in part because of the attorney-client privilege. Bill Macumber was found guilty and sentenced to life in prison. The case, rife with extraordinary irregularities, attracted the sustained involvement of the Arizona Justice Project, one of the first and most respected of the non-profit groups that represent victims of manifest injustice across the country. With more twists and turns than a Hollywood movie, Macumber's story illuminates startling, upsetting truths about our justice system, which kept a possibly innocent man locked up for almost forty years, and introduces readers to the generations of dedicated lawyers who never stopped working on his behalf, lawyers who ultimately achieved stunning results. With precise journalistic detail, intimate access and masterly storytelling, Barry Siegel will change your understanding of American jurisprudence, police procedure, and what constitutes justice in our country today.

In this stimulating work of political philosophy, acclaimed philosopher G. A. Cohen sets out to rescue the egalitarian thesis that in a society in which distributive justice prevails, people’s material prospects are roughly equal. Arguing against the Rawlsian version of a just society, Cohen demonstrates that distributive justice does not tolerate deep inequality. In the course of providing a deep and sophisticated critique of Rawls’s theory of justice, Cohen demonstrates that questions of distributive justice arise not only for the state but also for people in their daily lives. The right rules for the macro scale of public institutions and policies also apply, with suitable adjustments, to the micro level of individual decision-making. Cohen also charges Rawls’s constructivism with systematically conflating the concept of justice with other concepts. Within the Rawlsian architectonic, justice is not distinguished either from other values or from optimal rules of social regulation. The elimination of those conflations brings justice closer to equality.