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Pioneers In The Legal Profession: Some Of The First African-American And Women Lawyers In Tennessee, Dwight Aarons

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Judicial Independence: Second Steps, Penny White

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Are Separate Liability Losses Separate For Consolidated Groups?, Don Leatherman

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Can Lightning Strike Twice - Obligations Of State Courts After Pulley V. Harris, Penny White

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Something Seems Fishy - The Application Of The Fourth Amendment To Coast Guard Searches Of Vessels: United States V. Boynes Note, Lucille Jewel

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The Orphan Drug Act: What's Right With It, Gary Pulsinelli

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Lawyering, Power, And Reform: The Legal Campaign To Abolish The Broad Form Mineral Deed, Dean Rivkin

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Breaking The Most Vulnerable Branch: Do Rising Threats To Judicial Independence Preclude Due Process In Capital Cases?, Penny White

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We have been asked this morning to address whether the attacks on the judiciary and the efforts of politicians to change the judiciary so it will do things the politicians want it to do are affecting due process in capital cases. The answer to that question is yes.

In the many states where judges are elected, judges are vulnerable to being voted off the bench for unpopular decisions. Two members of this panel, Charles Baird and Penny White, were voted off courts because of their votes in capital cases. State judges who are subject to elections know that casting any …