Melinda Duckett Family Wrongful Death Lawsuit Against Nancy Grace and CNN -- It May Be a Dog that Will Hunt

Here in Texas, and I suppose most of the South, lawyers will talk about a weak argument as being a "dog that won't hunt."  And there was a time after the 2006 filing of a wrongful death action against CNN and Nancy Grace by the family of Melinda Duckett where that was exactly what I was thinking:  it's a dog that won't hunt.  Things may have changed ....

Backstory - What's the Basis for the Lawsuit?

On September 7, 2006, Nancy Grace interviewed Melinda Duckett over the telephone as part of her continuing television coverage of the search for Melinda Duckett's missing child, 2 year old Trenton.  (A transcript of the interview, as it was aired on September 8, 2006, by CNN is still available online.) 

Must See Video: Dogs Greeting Soldier Coming Home From 14 Mths in Iraq

I'm late in the game here, lots of folks have been sharing this video for awhile. I found it on Mental Floss, and I discover that Andrew Sullivan posted in a year ago.

Still, how can NOT I share it here, in case you haven't seen this?

God bless our soldiers and God bless dogs.

I love this video.

I Rank Within Top 3 in Google Search Results for My Blog Posts and the Search Results are in the Millions

Yesterday, I went roaming thru my blog post stats and found some very nice results. Like I'm hitting with posts in the top 3 out of millions in Google search results, and with posts that have staying power (they're old and still hitting hit.) So, please forgive my intrusion into the usual theme of this blog, but I'm republishing my post from yesterday on my Writer-Lawyer blog here (and on Everyday Simplicity and Rebecca Kennedy, too) as an experiment - to see what happens, stat-wise ....

This afternoon, I stopped to check the stats for my personal blogs and found some nice results. I do this a lot, but today I actually stopped to make a little tally.

Monday, August 17 - Prepare for Delays Getting into the Courthouse: the Keller Impeachment Starts at 9:30 am

Tomorrow morning, the impeachment trial of Chief Justice Sharon Keller of the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals will start at 9:30 am in the courtroom of Judge David Berchelmann.

A friend just sent over a "tweet" -- there are protesters planning on demonstrating on the courthouse steps tomorrow morning (they are estimating their numbers at 1900) ... and of course, we should all assume there will be the usual news crews and media trucks.

Byrd and Melanie Billings Murder in Florida: When Do the Florida Sunshine Laws Kick In? How Does Billings Case Impact the Casey Anthony Defense?

A Florida Grand Jury has just indicted the seven men whose mugshots we've already come to recognize as the "Ninja Warriors" arrested for the murder of Byrd and Melanie Billings. Each of the men -- including the minor, Rakeem Chavez Florence (16) -- have been formally charged with two counts of first degree murder and one count of home-invasion robbery. With this, the death penalty is apparently still on the table.

(The other defendants are Wayne Thomas Coldiron (41); Leonard Patrick Gonzalez, Jr. (35); Leonard Patrick Gonzalez, Sr. (56); Donald Ray Stallworth (28); Gary Lamont Sumner (30); Fredrick Lee Thornton (19).) It's alleged that the younger Gonzalez was the sole shooter in the case.