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MISSISSIPPI LAW JOURNAL Volume 77, Number 4 Summer2008 MISSISSIPPI ISSUE IN MEMORIAM William P. Murphy: Tributeto a Hero Samuel Marion Davis A Saluteto William P. Murphy John R. Bradley, Jr. The PoliticalTakeover ofa Law School: TheRealTragedyofthe Bill Murphy Story George Cochran William P. Murphy: A Remembrance T. H. Freeland, III A Tributeto William P. Murphy: Labor Law Trailblazer and Man ofUnflinching Principle PaulM Secunda . ESSAY William Faulkner, Legal Commentator: Humanity and Endurance in Hollywood's Yoknapatawpha MichaelAllan Wolf ARTICLES Selected Issues andTrends in Civil Litigation in M Mississippi Federal District Courts Robert Weems . The Strange andUnfortunate Story ofJudicialReview of Interlocutory Agency Action in Mississippi James L. Robertson COMMENT A Patane in theNeck: Should Mississippi Suppress Physical Evidence Discovered PursuanttoMiranda Violations as Fruits ofthe Poisonous Tree? 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ExecutiveAssistant to the Chancellor TIMOTHYL.WALSH SeniorAssociateDirectorofAlumniAffairsand AssociateDeanforDevelopment SAMUELM.DAVIS DeanoftheSchoolofLaw, DirectorofLaw Center, JamieL. Whitten ChairofLawand Government andProfessorofLaw TheLawSchoolFaculty GUTHRIET.ABBOTT, ProfessorEmeritusandButler, Snow, O'Mara, Stevensand CannadaLecturerinLawEmeritus RICHARDL. BARNES,ProfessorofLawand LeonardB. Melvin, Jr. DistinguishedLecturerinLaw DEBORAHH. BELL,ProfessorofLaw, MississippiDefenseLawyers AssociationDistinguishedLecturerandDirectorofthe Civil Legal Clinic JOHNR. BRADLEY, ProfessorofLaw PHILLIPW.BROADHEAD,Director, ClinicalAppealsProgramand ClinicalProfessorofLaw CHARLESBROWER,II, CroftAssociateProfessorofInternationalLaw andJessieD. Puckett, Jr. LecturerinLaw MERCERE.BULLARD,AssistantProfessorofLaw LARRYBUSH, ProfessorEmeritusofLaw W.TUCKERCARRINGTON, VisitingClinicalProfessor DAVIDW. CASE,AssociateProfessorofLaw BENJAMINP. COOPER,AssistantProfessorofLaw WILLIAMM. 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