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Focuses on law firm Jenner & Block's filing of a federal civil rights lawsuit challenging Mississippi's failure to provide lawyers to indigent death row inmates during state post-conviction appeals. Details of the lawsuit; Implications on the constitutional right to counsel; Features of a 1989 US Supreme Court ruling that neither the Eighth Amendment nor the due process clause requires states to appoint counsel to inmates.

Focuses on the dispute between brothers, Chris and James Beggerly and the United States government, over the ownership of Horn Island, in Mississippi. When brothers' argument over their ownership was heard before the Supreme Court; Circumstances surrounding the case; Name of lawyer representing the Beggerly brothers; Indepth look at case.