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...John Grisham's 1991 best seller, The Firm...
...John Grisham's current best seller, The Street Lawyer...
...other legal news: The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday left intact a ruling that John Grisham's novel "The Chamber" did not infringe on a nonfiction work written by serial killer Ted Bundy's last lawyer, Polly Nelson. She had sued Grisham and Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group, alleging the novel was too similar to her copyrighted book "Defending the Devil: My Story as Ted Bundy's Last Lawyer." A U.S. district court dismissed the case before it went to trial after an "exhaustive examination of both books" showed them to be substantially dissimilar. The decision was affirmed...
WASHINGTON: Talk about an emotionally fraught case. The Monica Lewinsky affair is starting to burst with more passion and courtroom intrigue than the combined novels of John Grisham and Jackie Collins. The still-silent Monica is said by her lawyer, William Ginsburg, to be doing no worse than ?protecting someone she loves? (presumably the President). Her mother, Marcia, facing a third day of grand jury testimony Thursday, was ?emotionally drained? by having to testify against her daughter, said her attorney. And no wonder. ?[Monica] told her everything about the sex,? according to Linda Tripp?s agent, Luciane Goldberg. Even...
Cousin, too, is changing, maturing and learning to deal with life on the row. He still watches cartoons, but he's reading more. He read John Grisham's The Chamber to get some idea about what death row was really like; now he's reading For the Defense by Rubin Ellis. But he is still caught up in memories of childhood. The father of a recreational-league basketball player whose team was an arch rival of Cousin's squad is in the next cell. "It was the only team that beat us," says Cousin. "That was the last game...