UM Grace Case

The laptop ran out of battery before the voir dire process even began, and without an electrical plug, I moved to the courthouse’s designated media room where supposedly a live-video stream from the courtroom would be fed.
But the cameras are trained on an empty witness stand and an empty podium, and aside from a potential juror’s head [...]

Good morning. Alex Tenenbaum is in the federal courthouse in Missoula for UM’s Grace Case Project as the long awaited trial of U.S. v WR Grace gets underway. The 80 potential jurors started the day in the courtroom with court officials only, watching, we are told, a standard-procedure instructional video on the jury selection [...]

Federal district court in Missoula will be packed Thursday morning as jury selection begins in the prosecution of W.R. Grace & Co. and five high level former employees and executives. Eighty potential jurors from Western Montana will be in the courtroom. They were chosen from a list of thousands, then winnowed using an extensive questionnaire [...]