Subject: Law

• Pith in the Waller

  June 30, 2008

• Michelle Peacock Found Not Guilty of Prostitution

  November 5, 2008

• AT&T Is not Evil, According to AT&T

  We told you yesterday that AT&T and Comcast were ready to start tag-teaming your music pirating ass with their buds over at RIAA. Not so fast, says the same guy who supposedly said they were going to start issuing takedown notices. In reality, AT&T is doing nothing of the sort, says Jim Cicconi, AT&T's executive vice president for external affairs. "Any suggestion that there is a deal between us and RIAA is just bogus," he told USA TODAY. Cicconi says AT&T has been testing a "procedure" for f

  March 26, 2009

• Is Capitalism Killing the News?

  A conversation with Gene Roberts

  October 11, 2007

• Yankee Doodle Dean

  Karl Dean is the third in a string of nerdy underdogs from the Northeast bidding for Nashville’s top office

  August 30, 2007

• One City, Two Peoples

  The upcoming dedication of the Nashville Public Library’s Civil Rights Room focuses on Nashville’s first sit-ins

  January 29, 2004

• Love And Hate Mail

  You said it, we didn't

  October 21, 2004

• And the Winners Are...

  Deputy District Attorney Tom Thurman and police Sgt. Pat Postiglione and Det. Bill Pridemore are this year’s Nashvillians of the Year

  December 28, 2006

• The Mute Minority

  Some people pay their debt to society forever

  October 28, 2004

• Guest Commentary

  The Outing of Black Non-Voters

  November 16, 2006

• Swear to Tell the Truth?

  A detective retracts testimony that led to a mistrial in a high-profile murder case

  November 2, 2006

• ‘Our Negroes’ No More

  Author examines all the ways—both the hideous and the complex—that Southern whites

  September 7, 2006

• This Little Tiny Judgeship...

  ...matters more than you might think

  February 5, 2004

• Dead Men Voting

  Tennessee has come a long way in granting ex-cons the right to vote

  August 24, 2006

• Love-Hate Mail

  October 20, 2005

• Notes From the Grand Jury

  Who are these people, and what do they have to say about criminal justice in Nashville?

  August 18, 2005

• Charged!

  Details of Perry March's arrest, possible evidence and who's on the prosecution's witness list

  August 11, 2005

• The Morning After

  The district attorney challenges the police department's use of confidential informants having sex with prostitutes

  January 20, 2005

• Lynchpin of Justice

  One mother’s grief helped to launch the civil rights movement

  December 25, 2003

• Why Dixie Turned Right

  New essay collection looks at how the presidency of George W. Bush is actually the legacy of George Wallace

  July 15, 2004

• This Is Your Witness on Drugs

  Judge orders new trial for defendants convicted on coked-up testimony

  January 1, 2004

• Lynchpin of Justice

  One mother’s grief helped to launch the civil rights movement

  January 1, 2004

• This Is Your Witness on Drugs

  Judge orders new trial for defendants convicted on coked-up testimony

  December 25, 2003

• Justice Done

  Gary Delsohn got unprecedented access to the Sacramento district attorney’s office and emerged with an eye-opening, insightful study of a prosecutor’s job

  August 14, 2003

• A List

  December 12, 2002

• Out for Justice

  Channel 5 slaps the Neighborhood Justice Center. But was it deserved?

  November 28, 2002

• A Public Scolding

  A state board censures Abdur’Rahman prosecutor for the second time

  June 6, 2002

• Dead Air?

  Internet radio is about to change dramatically, and some local broadcasters may not survive

  May 9, 2002

• They Might Be Giants

  How the Vanderbilt Law School class of '57 shaped a city

  February 14, 2002

• Parking Lot Pork

  Metro’s juvenile court clerk exploits a public facility for his friends

  November 22, 2001

• Dressed Down

  The arena hidden camera scandal puts pressure on the district attorney

  November 1, 2001

• Long Time, No See

  Metro Police surprise unsuspecting defendants with dusty warrants

  October 5, 2000

• A Few Good Men

  By Adam Ross & Willy Stern, photos by Eric England & Howard Ross

  September 21, 2000

• Bailing Out

  DA's office battles turnover, low starting salaries

  March 2, 2000

• Divorcing Under the Influence

  New Council member says he was "impaired"

  November 25, 1999

• The Week That Was

  Woolly winter

  September 16, 1999

• A Heavily Taxing Job

  July 29, 1999

• Useless Protection

  November 5, 1998

• By the Sword

  August 6, 1998

• Upsets and Unrest

  May 7, 1998

• Reading the Signs

  April 30, 1998

• Due Processes

  April 30, 1998

• Penny Picks Her Fight

  February 26, 1998

• Between Black and White

  February 19, 1998

• Thin Blue Line

  October 16, 1997

• Political Notes

  April 3, 1997

• Desperately Seeking the News

  March 6, 1997

• Copycat?

  August 8, 1996

• Sotomayor and the First Amendment

  Much of the cable babble about the nomination of Sonia Sotomayor to the U.S. Supreme Court dwells on speculation about how she'll rule on the hot button issues -- abortion, guns, race discrimination, and the like. But what about free speech and religious freedom? On that we're fortunate to have the fine folks at the First Amendment Center here in Nashville to fill us in. The Center's Legal beagle David Hudson has posted a wide ranging synthesis of Sotomayor's record on the federal bench on Fi

  May 28, 2009

• Separation of FACT and Fiction

  ​You'll want to be sure to mark your calendar for Historical Fiction Day coming up this Sunday, Jan. 10, brought to you by those paragons of ignorance and bigotry, the Family Action Council of Tennessee (FACT). Actually they're calling it Religious Freedom Sunday in Tennessee, but a quick read of the day's manifesto shows it up for the exercise in religious right historical revisionism that it really is. "The importance of this day," writes FACT's David Shelley, "is driven home by just how mu

  January 7, 2010