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Maintaining the Rule of Law – Planning within an All-Hazards Context
Rule of Law As summer ends and the flu season begins, the NCSC provides a streaming media version of our new 15 minute DVD: COOP Planning: Maintaining the Rule of Law – Planning within an All-Hazards Context.

American Gavel Awards
The American Gavel Award for Distinguished Reporting about the Judiciary was created in 2009 to recognize the highest standards of reporting about courts and the justice system. The award recognizes legal journalism at its best, and highlights the importance of journalism in educating the public about the legal system and the fundamental principles and values upon which that system is based.

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Teaching Youth Civics
Learn more about Justice Sandra Day O'Connor's initiative www.ourcourts.org that deals with teaching youth civics.

Judge Gregory A. Adams Receives Distinguished Jurist Award
DeKalb County Superior Court Judge Gregory A. Adams was presented with the 2009 Distinguished Jurist Award at the annual State Bar of Georgia Meeting by the Gate City Bar Association Judicial Section. Judge Adams received the award for his many contributions to the Georgia Justice System and the greater DeKalb County community during the past 15 years of his judicial service.

The Gregory A. Adams Juvenile Justice Center
On April 10, 2007, the DeKalb County Board of Commissioners voted unanimously to name the new $37.5 million Juvenile Court, the “Gregory A. Adams Juvenile Justice Center”, thereby making Gregory A. Adams the first judge to have a building named in his honor since DeKalb County was founded in 1822. The Gregory A. Adams Juvenile Justice Center was dedicated on June 22, 2007.

Minnesota's Legal Hall of Fame
A Nobel Peace Prize winner. A Supreme Court justice from St. Paul. Another Supreme Court justice from St. Paul. Al Capone’s lawyer. And 96 others. All attorneys. All from Minnesota.