Summary: Fiona Maye is a High Court judge in London ruling with wisdom and kindness over ethically complicated cases of family law. Fiona is tasked with ruling on the case of Adam, an exceptional boy who is refusing a life-saving blood transfusion. He is three months from his eighteenth birthday and legally still a child. Fiona visits Adam in the hospital and it has an extreme emotional impact on them...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA CHICopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Children 2018Summary: Bait: A tale of deception and seduction, directed by and starring Hugo Haas features three people searching for a lost gold mine: the dangerous Marko, young miner Ray and the comely Peggy. As Marko and Ray search for the mine, Peggy arrives, stirring Ray's passion and igniting Marko's suspicion. As months pass, the three find themselves closing in on the mine, but the tension between them is...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY CRIME/MYSTERY NOISummary: The girl with the dragon tattoo: A journalist is aided in his search for a woman who has been missing, or dead, for forty years by a young female hacker.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Music Box Films 2011
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN DRASummary: In a racially divided Alabama town in the 1930s, widowed lawyer Atticus Finch agrees to defend a young black man accused of raping a white woman, teaching his children valuable lessons about prejudice and empathy.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entertainment 2012
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie To Kill 2012Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TO NOT RATEDSummary: A fiercely independent woman is gang raped, then battles the legal system twice, going after both her attackers and the onlookers whose cheering fueled and encouraged the assault.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount 2002
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA ACCSummary: The true story of Slahi's fight for freedom after being detained and imprisoned without charge by the U.S. Government for years. Alone and afraid, Slahi finds allies in defense attorney Nancy Hollander and her associate Teri Duncan who battle the U.S. government in a fight for justice that tests their commitment to the law and their client at every turn. Their controversial advocacy, along with...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Pictures Home Entertainment 2021
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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA MAUCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE MAUSummary: Inspired by a shocking true story, a tenacious attorney uncovers a dark secret that connects a growing number of unexplained deaths due to one of the world's largest corporations. In the process, he risks everything, his future, his family, and his own life to expose the truth.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Video Discs, Call number: DVD DARCopies Available at Woodmere
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE DARSummary: American judge Daniel Haywood presides over the trial of four German jurists accused of "legalizing" Nazi atrocities. But as graphic accounts of sterilization and murder unfold in the courtroom, mounting political pressure for leniency forces Haywood into making the most harrowing and difficult decision of his career.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA JUDSummary: Three generations of women aspire to share a house, a law practice and their feelings. Claire Darrow, an idealistic lawyer, fights for what's right, regardless of whether it makes her a dime. Joanna is her mother, whose view of the law is more elastic and profitable. They clash on nearly everything, especially on the best way to raise Claire's daughter, Louise, a bright 12-year-old with an...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hallmark Channel 2023
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV DARSummary: Claire Darrow, a lawyer, fights for what's right, regardless of whether it makes her a dime. Naomi, Claire's estranged mother and a lawyer as well, would rather make a profit. They clash on nearly everything, even on the best way to raise Claire's daughter. When a close friend is convicted of stealing from an expensive jewelry store, it's up to Claire to bring justice.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hallmark Channel 2018
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD DARSummary: A powerful and thought-provoking true story follows young lawyer Bryan Stevenson and his history-making battle for justice. After graduating from Harvard, Bryan had his pick of lucrative jobs. Instead, he heads to Alabama to defend those wrongly condemned or who were not afforded proper representation, with the support of local advocate Eva Ansley. One of his first and most incendiary cases is...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA JUSCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Browsing Hot DVDs, Call number: DVD JUSCopies Available at Peninsula
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JuCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE JUSSummary: A Christian teacher is forced before a judge for honestly answering a question about Jesus in the classroom. With the principal and superintendent joining forces with a zealous civil liberties group, Grace faces an epic court case that could cost her the career she loves and expel God from the classroom.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Pictures Home Entertainment 2016
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1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD Family God's 2016Summary: Inspired by the powerful true story of a young Ruth Bader Ginsburg, On the Basis of Sex depicts a then-struggling attorney and new mother facing adversity in her fight for equal rights. When Ruth takes on a ground-breaking case, she knows the outcome could alter the courts' view of gender discrimination. Stronger together, Ruth teams up with her husband, Martin Ginsburg, to fight the case that...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Pictures Home Entertainment 2019
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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA ONCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD ONTMuller, Peter Paul
Summary: A story of the South African lawyer Bram Fischer who defended Nelson Mandela and other members of his group during the Rivonia Trial.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kino International 2020
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA ACTSummary: Martin Hunter is a high profile laywer who has an impeccable record putting criminals behind bars and is a shoo-in for governor in the upcoming election. But when ambitious rookie journalist C.J. Nicholas begins investigating Hunter for tampering with evidence to secure his convictions, the district attorney's perfect record is up for scrutiny. Commencing a risky game of cat and mouse with...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Anchor Bay Entertainment 2009
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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA BEYSummary: Big-city lawyer Hank Palmer returns to his childhood home where his estranged father, the town's judge, is suspected of murder. He sets out to discover the truth and along the way reconnects with the family he walked away from years before.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA JUDSummary: The final installment of Stieg Larsson's 'Millennium' trilogy. Lisbeth Salander is fighting for her life in more ways than one. In an intensive care unit and charged with three murders, she will have to not only prove her innocence, but also identify and denounce the same corruptgovernment institutions that nearly destroyed her life. Once upon a time, she was a victim. Now, Lisbeth Salander is...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Music Box Films 2011
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2 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN GIRCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE GIRSummary: Michael 'Mick' Haller is a slick, charismatic Los Angeles criminal defense attorney who operates out of the back of his Lincoln Town Car. Having spent most of his career defending petty, gutter-variety criminals, Mick unexpectedly lands the case of a lifetime. However, what initially appears to be a straightforward case with a big money payoff swiftly develops into a deadly match between two...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lions Gate Home Entertainment 2011
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVDCopies Available at Kingsley
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1 available in Thriller DVDs, Call number: DVD THRILLER LINSummary: A small-town Michigan lawyer takes on a difficult case: that of a young Army lieutenant accused of murdering the local tavern owner who he believes raped his wife. A gripping, envelope-pushing courtroom drama, Anatomy of a murder was groundbreaking for the frankness of its discussion of sex. More than anything else, it is a striking depiction of the power of words. With its outstanding...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2012
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA ANASummary: Two teenagers from New York City are falsely accused of murder while driving through rural Alabama. To defend them in court, one of them hires his cousin Vinny, a flamboyant personal injury lawyer with no trial experience whatsoever.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2000
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: A writer is put on trial for her husband's suspicious demise, which happened while their blind son was out of the house, and the writer is well-known for turning her life into auto-fiction.
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Criterion Collection 2024
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Jan Schlichtmann (Travolta) is a cynical, high-priced personal injury attorney who only takes big-money cases he can safely settle out of court. He takes on a case which at first appears straightforward, but soon becomes entangled in a labyrinthine legal battle involving industrial pollution, contaminated drinking water, and the deaths of innocent children in New England.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Touchstone Home Video 1999
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Summary: Serious and hard-working Harvard Law School student Hart finds he must survive much more than the pressures, all-night cramming and insecurities he expected. He becomes the fearful adversary of Kingsfield, the school's most imperious, witheringly sarcastic yet brilliant professor. Terrorizing some, inspiring others, the professor easily separates the men from the boys by the time the term is...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2003
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA PAPSummary: A church destroyed. A congregation silenced. A relationship shattered. Yet even in life's darkest valleys, a small flame can light the way toward healing and hope. After a deadly fire rips through St. James Church, Hadleigh University leaders use the tragedy to push the congregation off campus, forcing the church to defend its rights and bringing together estranged brothers for a reunion that...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018