He is naïve enough to be impressed by the attention shown him by his backers, and does not question his source of funding or his campaign team's underhanded tactics. Their anointed candidate is Ron Fisk, a lawyer with no political experience or ambitions. Since Mississippi Supreme Court justices are elected rather than appointed, Trudeau plots with Barry Rinehart of Troy-Hogan, a shady Boca Raton firm that deals only in judicial elections, to select a candidate who can replace the liberal Sheila McCarthy. When the jury awards Baker $3 million in wrongful death damages and $38 million in punitive damages, billionaire stockholder Carl Trudeau vows to do whatever is necessary to overturn their decision and save the company's stocks.
Mississippi attorneys Wes and Mary Grace Payton have battled New York City-based Krane Chemical in an effort to seek justice for Jeannette Baker, whose husband and son died from carcinogenic pollutants the company knowingly and negligently allowed to seep into their town's water supply.
A paperback edition was released by Delta Publishing on November 18, 2008. It was published by Doubleday and released in hardcover in the United States on January 29, 2008. The Appeal is a 2008 novel by John Grisham, his 21st book and his first fictional legal thriller since The Broker was published in 2005.
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