AMERICAN BAR ASSOCIATION GAVEL AWARD CERTIFICATE OF MERIT WINNERS 1990s 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1990 NEWSPAPERS The Sun Herald Biloxi, MS "A Fine Line" Palm Beach Post West Palm Beach, FL "Justice for the Mentally Ill" MAGAZINES Memphis Magazine Memphis, TN Insight "Behind Closed Doors" "Special Prosecutor" BOOKS Simon & Schuster "The Antagonists: Hugo Black, Felix Frankfurter and Civil Liberties"
Yale University Press New Haven, CT "Belonging To America: Equal Citizenship and the Constitution" TELEVISION WQED/Pittsburgh Pittsburgh, PA WFTV Orlando, FL "Visions of the Constitution" "Grey Orphans" KQED-TV San Francisco, CA "S.L.A.P.P.s" RADIO WBUR-FM Boston, MA "Boston Small Claims Court" Page 2 of 12
1991 NEWSPAPERS The News and Courier/The Evening Post Charleston, SC "Defending the Poor: Bargain Basement Justice" The Hartford Courant Hartford, CT "Should Drugs Be Legalized?" Detroit Free Press Detroit, MI "Courting Disaster" The Marionville New Press Marionville, MO New Times Phoenix, AZ "Lawrence County Justice" "Bush's Crack War" WIRE SERVICES/SYNDICATES Newhouse News Service "Death Penalty MAGAZINES Insight "Death's Narrow Door" BOOKS Harvard University Press Cambridge, MA "After the Rights Revolution: Reconceiving the Regulatory State," by Cass R. Sunstein Page 3 of 12
TELEVISION Capital Cities/ABC, Inc. KEYC-TV Mankato, MN KYTV Springfield, MO WISC-TV Madison, WI WKYT-TV Lexington, KY KAET Tempe, AZ WGBH-TV Boston, MA "The Koppel Report: Drugs, Crime & Doing Time" "Public Defenders: Justice for All" "The Right to Die" "Lasting Decisions" "When the Law's Not Enough" "Homesteading Your Home, The Importance of a Will and Portrait of a Bankruptcy" "The Roxbury Defender" RADIO Minnesota Public Radio St. Paul, MN Pacifica Radio Berkeley, CA "Battered Lesbians" "Push Button Felonies" Page 4 of 12
1992 NEWSPAPERS Pecos Enterprise Pecos, TX St. Cloud Times St. Cloud, MN "Legal System a Maze For Most People" "Plea Bargaining" The Standard-Times New Bedford, MA "Disorder in the Courts" Albany Times Union Albany, NY "On Law and Lawyers" The Morning Call Allentown, PA "Part-Time D.A.: Public Duties vs. Private Practice" San Francisco Examiner San Francisco, CA "Doctors of Desire" The Courier-Journal Louisville, KY "Violence Against Women" The Miami Herald Miami, FL Sacramento Bee Sacramento, CA "The Bill of Rights/200 Years of Freedom" "Fields of Pain" St. Louis Post-Dispatch St. Louis, MO "Bill of Rights" Page 5 of 12
Star Tribune Minneapolis, MN "Free to Rape" SLV Publishing/The Alamosa News Monte Vista, CO "SLV Water - Water War Goes To Court" NEWSPAPER MAGAZINE SUPPLEMENTS The New York Times Magazine "Defining Law on the Feminist Frontier" MAGAZINES The Chicago Reporter Chicago, IL D Magazine Dallas, TX "Troubled Courts, Troubled Kids, Juvenile Court" "Reversal of Justice" Spectrum Magazine Bloomsburg, PA "Special Report: Child Custody" American Heritage "Naming a Justice: It Has Always Been Politics as Usual" Common Cause Magazine Insight "Why Workers Can't Win" "America For Sale" Boys Life Magazine Irving, TX "The Bill of Rights Series" Page 6 of 12
BOOKS HarperCollins "Black Hills White Justice" by: Edward Lazarus University of California Press Berkeley, CA "The Fourth Estate and the Constitution: Freedom of the Press in America" by: Lucas A. Powe TELEVISION Drug Policy Foundation "High Noon: Police Chiefs Debate Drug Policy" KSL-TV Salt Lake City, UT WITI-TV Milwaukee, WI WSMV-TV Nashville, TN KUVN-TV Garland, TX RADIO KUAT Tucson, AZ "Doing Utah Justice" "Boot Camp For Bad Guys" "Hold The Bus!" "Crime and Justice" "Insanity Defense" Minnesota Public Radio St. Paul, MN WILL Urbana, IL "Supremes" "Legal Issues In The News" Page 7 of 12
1993 NEWSPAPERS The Anniston Star Anniston, AL "Courting Appeals" Akron Beacon Journal Akron, OH "Justices for All?" The Morning News Tribune Tacoma, WA "Suing the State" The Arizona Republic Phoenix, AZ "Juvenile Sex Offender Program" Fort Worth Star Telegram Ft. Worth, TX "How Safe Are We" Chicago Sun-Times Chicago, IL "Juvenile Injustice" Detroit Free Press Detroit, MI "Parole's Fatal Mistakes" Los Angeles Times Los Angeles, CA "Lawyer Heir to Elderly Clients' Millions" Twin Cities Reader Minneapolis, MN "Lost in Translation" MAGAZINES Journal of American Health Policy "Fineline Columns" Page 8 of 12
Time Magazine "Corridors of Agony" BOOKS Oxford University Press Random House "Oxford Companion to the Supreme Court of the United States" by Kermit L. Hall "The Evolving Constitution: How the Supreme Court Has Ruled on Issues from Abortion to Zoning" by Jethro Lieberman TELEVISION Capital Cities/ABC, Inc. "ABC News 20/20 Judging the Jurors" and "To Prove them Innocent" Center for Investigative Reporting and PBS Frontline "Your Loan is Denied" KERA-TV and Public Affairs Television Dallas, TX KMGH Denver, CO WBAL Baltimore, MD "Listening to America with Bill Moyers: So Violent a Nation" "Finders Keepers" "Disable and Denied" Creativideo, Inc. with the New Hampshire Bar Association and the New Hampshire Humanities Council "Rights & Reds, Cold War in New Hampshire" Page 9 of 12
RADIO Soundprint Baltimore, MD "Your Loan is Denied" Minnesota Public Radio St. Paul, MN "Judicial Elections" Page 10 of 12
1994 NEWSPAPERS Corpus Christi Caller-Times Corpus Christi, TX "Hickey: Nothing Wrong" The Miami Herald Miami, FL Dallas Observer Dallas, TX "Lost in America" "Have Gavel, Will Travel" MAGAZINES Car Collector Magazine Atlanta, GA "Old Cars in Law" BOOKS Basic Books The Culture of Disbelief: How American Law & Politics Trivialize Religious Devotion by Stephen L. Carter Simon & Schuster Battleground: One Mother's Crusade, The Religious Right, and the Struggle for Control of Our Classrooms, by Stephen Bates Yale University Press New Haven, CT Brutal Need: Lawyers and the Welfare Rights Movement, 1960-1973, by Martha Davis TELEVISION CBS News "EYE TO EYE with Connie Chung: Accidents will Happen" and "48 Hours: Fatal Encounter" Page 11 of 12
WMBB-TV Panama City, FL "DUI: Profit or Punishment?" KCSM-TV San Mateo, CA "Legal Currents" Page 12 of 12