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  • - The Shaw-Cromartie Cases
    af Tinsley E. Yarbrough
    348,95 - 958,95 kr.

    In 1993-2001, three cases in North Carolina went before the Supreme Court to decide how far a state could establish voting districts along racial lines. This text explores how the Court addressed the constitutionality of redistricting within the contexts of civil rights and partisan politics.

  • - Euclid v. Ambler
    af Michael Allan Wolf
    688,95 kr.

    When the Cleveland suburb of Euclid first zoned its land in 1922, the Ambler Realty Company was left with a sizable tract it could no longer sell for industrial use - and so the company sued. This book describes how the ordinance, and the defense of it, burst onto the national stage and became the focus of litigation.

  • - Film Censorship and the Supreme Court
    af Laura Wittern-Keller & Raymond J. Haberski
    348,95 - 958,95 kr.

    Roberto Rossellini's ""Il Miracolo"" is deceptively simple: a demented peasant woman is seduced by a stranger she believes to be Saint Joseph, is socially ostracized for becoming pregnant out of wedlock, but is finally redeemed through motherhood. This book explores the unique place that the movies occupy in American culture.

  • - Curt Flood Versus Baseball
    af Robert Michael Goldman
    348,95 - 958,95 kr.

    When Curt Flood, all-star center fielder for the St Louis Cardinals, refused to be traded to the Philadelphia Phillies in 1968, he sent shock waves throughout professional baseball that ultimately reached the Supreme Court. This book offers a look at Flood's efforts to shake the foundations of major league baseball.

  • af Barbara A. Perry
    323,95 - 958,95 kr.

    In its controversial Bakke decision of 1978, the Supreme Court upheld racial and ethnic diversity in university admissions. This book follows the twists and turns of the district and appellate cases. It aims to reveal the story of how Justice O'Connor joined her liberal colleagues to uphold the use of race in university admissions.

  • - Cooper V. Aaron and School Desegregation
    af Tony Allan Freyer
    327,95 kr.

    In 1957, a violent mob barred black students from entering Little Rock's Central High School and was faced off against paratroopers sent by a reluctant President Eisenhower. This book provides a summary of that historic case and shows that it paved the way for later civil rights victories. It describes the work of the Little Rock NAACP.

  • - TVA Versus the Endangered Species Act
    af Kenneth M. Murchison
    368,95 - 958,95 kr.

    The 1978 decision in TVA v Hill, the Court's first decision interpreting the Endangered Species Act, remains one of the most instructive cases in American environmental law. This work reveals that the snail darter case was just one part of a long struggle over whether the TVA should build the Tellico Dam.

  • - Child Abuse, Family Rights, and the Dilemma of State Intervention
    af Lynne Curry
    353,95 - 943,95 kr.

    Does the Constitution protect children from violent parents? This book discusses domestic relations, child abuse, and the responsibilities - and limits - of state action regarding the private lives of citizens. It helps readers understand how considerations of ""what should be"" are not always reflected in legal reasoning.

  • - The Debate Over Discrimination and School Funding
    af Paul A. Sracic
    348,95 - 958,95 kr.

    When Arthur Gochman filed a class-action suit in 1968 on behalf of San Antonio school children, he argued that quality education was a constitutional right and a district court agreed. But the Supreme Court overruled that decision. This book assesses the impact of this decision and provides an account of the legal maneuvering of the two sides.

  • - Securing a Nation
    af Mark R. Killenbeck
    348,95 - 958,95 kr.

    Recounts how the cashier of the Baltimore branch of the Second Bank of the US refused to pay Maryland's tax on the bank and how that act precipitated a showdown in the Supreme Court. This book provides a virtual constitutional history of the first fifty years of the nation.

  • - Guarding Against Unreasonable Searches and Seizures
    af Carolyn N. Long
    348,95 - 883,95 kr.

    Dollree Mapp defied a predominantly white police force by challenging the legality of its search-and-seizure methods. This work follows the police raid into her home and chronicles the events that led to the Court's 5-4 ruling in Mapp v Ohio, which redefined the rights of the accused and set limits on how police could obtain and use evidence.

  • - Regulation, Reconstruction, and the Fourteenth Amendment
    af Ronald M. Labbe
    348,95 kr.

    The Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution, ratified in 1868, sought to protect the rights of the newly freed slaves; but its first important test - centered on a vitriolic dispute among the white butchers of mid-Reconstruction New Orleans - did not arise until five years later. This is a guide to one of the US Supreme Court's most famous cases.

  • - Puritans Divided
    af Michael P. Winship
    293,95 - 958,95 kr.

    Anne Hutchinson was perhaps the most famous Englishwoman in colonial American history, viewed in later centuries as a crusader for religious liberty and a prototypical feminist. Michael Winship disentangles what really happened from the legends that have misrepresented her.

  • - The Mechelle Vinson Case
    af Augustus B. Cochran
    348,95 - 943,95 kr.

    Augustus Cochran reexamines the origins, contexts, and impact of the decision that the creation of a ""hostile work environment"" through sexual harassment was a form of sex discrimination and introduces readers to the main actors in the case of Meritor Savings Bank v. Vinson (1986).

  • - United States v. Price and the Struggle for Civil Rights
    af Howard Ball
    348,95 - 803,95 kr.

    Howard Ball examines the landmark case of the U.S. v. Price in 1967. Following the failure of the Mississippi authorities to indict members of the KKK for a racist murder, the federal government successfully appealed to the Supreme Court and established federal jurisdiction over civil rights violations.

  • - The My Lai Massacre and Court-martial of Lieutenant Calley
    af Michal R. Belknap
    413,95 kr.

    The military trial of William Calley for his role in the slaughter of 500 or more Vietnamese civilians at My Lai shocked a nation already sharply divided over a controversial war. This work is a retelling of the My Lai story through the prism of the law.

  • - A Military Tribunal and American Law
    af Louis Fisher
    318,95 - 688,95 kr.

    In the wake of the 9/11 attacks, Louis Fisher analyzes the case of eight Germans who landed in the USA in 1942 bent on sabotage. Caught before they could carry out their missions, they were hauled before a secret military tribunal and found guilty. Six of the men were put to death.

  • - Clash of Labor and Capital in Industrial America
    af David Ray Papke
    299,95 - 809,95 kr.

    This volume reexamines the events and personalities in the 1894 strike when the American Railway Union took action against the Pullman Palace Car Company. It also looks at related proceedings in the Chicago trial courts, and the decision which set important standards for labour injunctions.

  • - Nally V. Grace Community Church of the Valley
    af Mark A. Weitz
    323,95 - 958,95 kr.

    Nally v. Grace Community Church of the Valley was America's first case to allege ""clergy malpractice,"" one that challenged the freedom of religious leaders to counsel their parishioners. The case is as much a story of modern America as it is an account of courtroom proceedings.

  • - The Case of Oregon v. Smith
    af Carolyn N. Long
    368,95 kr.

    The Supreme Court's controversial decision in Oregon v. Smith sharply departed from previous readings of the First Amendment's religious freedom clause and ignited a firestorm of protest. This analysis of the case shows why it continues to resonate so deeply in the American psyche.

  • af Peter Charles Hoffer
    348,95 - 943,95 kr.

    Aaron Burr was an enigma even in his own day. Founding father and vice president, he engaged in a duel with Alexander Hamilton resulting in a murder indictment that effectively ended his legal career. This book unveils a cast of characters ensnared by politics and law at the highest levels of government.

  • - How Engel v. Vitale Changed America
    af Bruce J. Dierenfield
    338,95 - 810,95 kr.

    It has become known to many as the moment when the US Supreme Court kicked God out of the public schools, supposedly paving the way for a decline in educational quality and a dramatic rise in delinquency and immorality. This book helps readers understand why Americans remain divided on how divided church and state should be.

  • af Bartholomew Sparrow
    413,95 - 1.043,95 kr.

    When the US took control of Cuba, Puerto Rico, the Philippines, and Guam following the Spanish-American War, it was unclear to what degree these islands were actually part of the US. By looking at what became known as the Insular Cases, this work reveals how America resolved to govern these territories.

  • - Birth Control and the Constitutional Right of Privacy
    af John W. Johnson
    348,95 - 958,95 kr.

    Privacy isn't even mentioned in the US Constitution. It took the Supreme Court's ruling in Griswold v. Connecticut (1965) to bestow constitutional protection upon this right. John Johnson's critique of Griswold - which observes its 40th anniversary on June 7, 2005 - reminds us once again of its crucial impact on both American law and society.

  • - Smith V. Allwright and the Defeat of the Texas All-white Primary
    af Charles Zelden
    348,95 - 958,95 kr.

    The history of voting rights in America is marked by dogged progress against persistent prejudice toward an expanding inclusiveness. The Supreme Court decision in Smith v. Allwright is a crucial chapter in that story and marked a turning point for the civil rights movement. Charles Zelden's retelling of this episode reveals why.

  • - Church of the Lukumi Babalu Aye v. City of Hialeah
    af David M. O'Brien
    348,95 - 643,95 kr.

    The Santeria religion of Cuba - the Way of the Saints - mixes West African Yoruba culture with Catholicism. Similar to Haitian voodoo, Santeria has long practiced animal sacrifice in certain rites. Here, David O'Brien illuminates this controversy and its significance for law, government, and religion in America.

  • - Slavery, Crime and Colonial Law
    af Peter Charles Hoffer
    348,95 kr.

    Almost 35 years before New York saw the first great battle waged by the new United States of America for its independence, rumours of a slave conspiracy spread in the city, leading to the conviction and execution of over 70 slaves. This text retells the dramatic story of these landmark trials.

  • - A Legal History
    af Peter Charles Hoffer
    348,95 kr.

    In late 17th-century Salem, Massachusetts, neighbours turned against neighbours and children against parents with accusations of witchcraft. This text examines what created an epidemic of accusations that resulted in the investigation of nearly 200 colonists and, for many, trial and incarceration.

  • - Immigrants, Blacks, and States' Rights in Antebellum America
    af Tony Allan Freyer
    348,95 - 958,95 kr.

    Focuses on the antebellum Supreme Court's role prescribing state-federal regulation of immigrants, the movement of free blacks within the United States and on the origins, state court decisions, federal precedents, appellate arguments, and opinion-making that culminated in the Court's decision of the Passenger Cases.