Word: alabamas
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...many of them, needed not only wisdom and fairness but a lot of nerve. Which is why Frank Johnson, a federal district judge who was equipped with all three, emerged as one of the heroes of that era. After the Eisenhower appointee declared that the segregated buses of Montgomery, Alabama, were illegal, his mother's house was partly destroyed by a bomb that was apparently meant for him. Undaunted, Johnson went on to apply Supreme Court antidiscrimination rulings to resentful state institutions...
When Johnson announced his retirement last year from the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals, which covers Alabama, Georgia and Florida, the White House came up with an unlikely replacement: Edward E. Carnes, 41, Alabama's assistant attorney general in charge of pursuing death-penalty cases. And pursue them he does. Carnes wrote Alabama's death-penalty law, which allows judges to impose the death penalty on convicted killers even when juries have opted for life in prison. He led a national effort by state attorneys general to curb the opportunities for death-row prisoners to appeal their cases before federal...
...three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals in Montgomery, Alabama, has ruled that Soldier of Fortune magazine will have to pay $4.37 million in compensatory damages to Michael and Ian Braun. Their father, a businessman, was murdered in a contract killing set in motion by a 1985 classified ad headed GUN FOR HIRE and offering the "special skills" of a "professional mercenary." Two other businessmen, the advertiser, Richard Michael Savage, and an associate of his, were convicted of conspiracy in the murder. Soldier of Fortune, the court ruled, was negligent in publishing an ad that clearly indicated...
...when H.L. Mencken collaborated with a statistician on three articles trying to establish the worst state in America, Mississippi won that upside-down contest, but with Arkansas and Alabama hotly contesting the bad eminence. Arkansas, near the bottom in most categories, was at the bottom for insolvency. V.O. Key Jr., in his famous study Southern Politics in State and Nation, gave the prize for fraudulent elections to Tennessee -- but Arkansas was a close second. Diane Blair, a political scientist who has written the best study of the state's constitutional structure, calls Arkansas nearly ungovernable. Yet Clinton has governed...
...capital cases." Court- appointed attorneys must also be willing to settle for modest fees that rarely cover the cost of a thorough defense. While a private attorney in Atlanta may make upwards of $75 an hour, court-appointed lawyers in Georgia are paid about $30 an hour. In Alabama they cannot be paid more than $1,000 for pretrial preparations. Even if they spend just 500 hours at the task -- the U.S. average in 1987 was 2,000 -- that amounts to $2 an hour. "The lawyer would be better off going to work at McDonald's," says Stephen Bright, director...