Original title
Just Cause
Released
9/15/2002
Origin country
CA, US
Genre
Drama
Production companies
Minds Eye Entertainment, Minds Eye Pictures, Just Cause Productions
Status
Ended
Number of seasons
1
Number of episodes
22
Just Cause is an award-winning Canadian legal drama television series produced by Mind's Eye Entertainment. Filming was done in Vancouver, British Columbia but the series is set in San Francisco, California.
After doing prison time for a crime she didn't commit, Alex DeMonaco lands a job at Hamilton Whitney III's law firm to search for her missing daughter.
After doing prison time for a crime she didn't commit, Alex DeMonaco lands a job at Hamilton Whitney III's law firm to search for her missing daughter.
Alex tries to help a single mom who thinks a drug company's experimental asthma medicine may have put her son in a coma.
After a friend Alex knew in prison dies from an apparent suicide, Alex investigates a decorated police officer.
A Young boy's adoption in Marian County is threatened by a chinese couple claming to be his Parents. Alex finds out that the boy isn't who he is. Now Whitney,Alex and Heller go up against the chinese government.
Alex becomes ill after eating one of the burgers when Tonya is fired from her Job.
When a man dies of a rare form of cancer,the firm looks into the case for the family. Alex and Whitney believe the exposure of the illness may have happened during military service.
Alex decides to take an insurance fraud case. She soon learns who is behind it.
Alex and Whitney find themselves in the spotlight when Whitney is hired by a TV gossip reporter, who is being sued.
Alex and Whitney look into the death of a college football star, who kills himself. The autopsy reoport tells a different story.
Whitney looks into a contract dispute of favorite idol. Alex and Heller find the record head is doning a lot of misdeeds.
Alex takes the case of a pastor who runs a homeless shelter and gets an eviction notice. Whitney must buy gifts three ex-wives.
Whitney must face his dad when he asks for help, An elderly woman is ripped by a funeral home later it is found that home is reusing things.
Heller's former girfriend and her husband may wish they hadn't found their dream house after they are sick. Whitney's next case has taking a dummy for a client because the ventrilquist will only talk through the dummy!
Alex must relive her days in prison after cell mates in her old cell block turn up ill she finds out more about her prison time.
Susan worries about her job because being fat and seeks help in how to it back after having a baby. Sue wants to sell Master Slim. Alex takes a job at the company to find out more. Alex gets worried when Susan doesn't come home and soon heads to the club to find her dead in the pool. Alex thinks Susan died due to taking diet pills. Patrick finds a magazine editor asking him to pose for the magazine. Alex finds out that Susan's death wasn't caused by diet pills but by something else. Alex finds out that Kyle the creator of Master Slim was in prison on a weapons charge.
Alex goes out with Chris a lawyer for the tire company that Whitney and Alex are have a Lawsuit with. The firm now tries to get justice for a woman & her son. Whitney tells the court that Dane tire caused the death of Sandra's son & husband, When the tire company hired untrained people to replace the tires. The Company failed to tell people the tires were bad. Alex learns that Chris was working on the same case and was a step a head because of what Alex told Chris, they were taking the bar exam.
Mr. Whitney may go to jail for having hazardous materials in his office. Has Mia finally been found?
Why did Leon quit law? After looking at new evidence in the case that made Leon leave law could put him in danger.
Mr. Decker Principal of Harding High School is confronted Geena Harrington because she is doing bad in school and wants to find a better way to raise her grades. Mr. Decker is let go from his job because Geena says her grades would be raised if she got closer to Mr. Decker. Geena tells Whitney that Mr. Decker made advances to her, Alex decides to go and fill in for a teacher. Patrick feels Rebecca is getting to close and is having trouble ending the relationship. Alex found information that makes Alex wonders if Mr. Decker is telling the truth. Rebecca gets angry because she thinks Peggy is going out with Patrick, Alex finds that Geena lied about what Mr. Decker did. Geena later says the Vice Principal told Geena to lie to help her grades.
Whitney falls in love a woman named Sota Hasura who asks Alex and Whitney to find her past and answer questions of long ago. Whitney takes Sota out to dinner, where a song takes her back in time, Alex looks at the file of Dragan Manic who they think may have committed war crimes in Hague at a conceration camp where Sonta's sister died. Whitney and Sota share a kiss but her the moment brings her sister's face back to her. Alex and Whitney learn that person who shot Sonta's sister maybe in California. Whitney now must keep Sota safe. Alex questions why Whitney wants to stay on the case. Whitney is shocked to lean that Sota went to look for her Grand Father's watch by looking in a dead man's pockets. Alex has a meeting with the man who killed Sonta's sister, he pulls a watch out of his pocket (Alex's memory takes her back to seeing Sota's sister give the watch up for life.) Whitney loses control as Sota runs out after looking at the face of her sister's killer. We find out that the watch was taken from Sonta's Grandmother. The watch is given back to Sonta who leaves to go to her country.
Whitney helps Stanton close on the family business but the firm has until 5pm to do it. The papers are on the table ready to sign Alex tells the family that after the papers are signed they will help drop the charges against Tucker. Heller has trouble getting the Judge to sign the order for the sale to go through. Patrick finally gets the Judge to sign the order but the Judge forgets to sign a page after Patrick looks to make sure all pages are signed. Mr. Lewitt gets angry because he would lose the market share if he doesn't get Malbeery Brands (a cereal company) Alex asks CJ Leon to look in to rumors that Malbeery Brands used genetically altered wheat in their cereals. Stanton is talking with tucker who says Stanton made Marshall (Tucker's dad) kill himself. Malberry Brands isn't going to sold for 60 days.
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