Author: Washington (State). Supreme CourtPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law reports, digests, etc
Languages : en
Pages : 818
Book Description
Cases Determined in the Supreme Court of Washington
Author: Washington (State). Supreme CourtPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law reports, digests, etc
Languages : en
Pages : 818
Book Description
Judging Inequality
Author: James L. GibsonPublisher: Russell Sage Foundation
ISBN: 161044907X
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 379
Book Description
Social scientists have convincingly documented soaring levels of political, legal, economic, and social inequality in the United States. Missing from this picture of rampant inequality, however, is any attention to the significant role of state law and courts in establishing policies that either ameliorate or exacerbate inequality. In Judging Inequality, political scientists James L. Gibson and Michael J. Nelson demonstrate the influential role of the fifty state supreme courts in shaping the widespread inequalities that define America today, focusing on court-made public policy on issues ranging from educational equity and adequacy to LGBT rights to access to justice to worker’s rights. Drawing on an analysis of an original database of nearly 6,000 decisions made by over 900 judges on 50 state supreme courts over a quarter century, Judging Inequality documents two ways that state high courts have crafted policies relevant to inequality: through substantive policy decisions that fail to advance equality and by rulings favoring more privileged litigants (typically known as “upperdogs”). The authors discover that whether court-sanctioned policies lead to greater or lesser inequality depends on the ideologies of the justices serving on these high benches, the policy preferences of their constituents (the people of their state), and the institutional structures that determine who becomes a judge as well as who decides whether those individuals remain in office. Gibson and Nelson decisively reject the conventional theory that state supreme courts tend to protect underdog litigants from the wrath of majorities. Instead, the authors demonstrate that the ideological compositions of state supreme courts most often mirror the dominant political coalition in their state at a given point in time. As a result, state supreme courts are unlikely to stand as an independent force against the rise of inequality in the United States, instead making decisions compatible with the preferences of political elites already in power. At least at the state high court level, the myth of judicial independence truly is a myth. Judging Inequality offers a comprehensive examination of the powerful role that state supreme courts play in shaping public policies pertinent to inequality. This volume is a landmark contribution to scholarly work on the intersection of American jurisprudence and inequality, one that essentially rewrites the “conventional wisdom” on the role of courts in America’s democracy.
The President and the Supreme Court
Author: Paul M. Collins (Jr.)Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108498485
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 287
Book Description
Examines the relationship between the president and the Supreme Court, including how presidents view the norm of judicial independence.
Case Processing Guide
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Tax administration and procedure
Languages : en
Pages : 350
Book Description
Reports of Cases Argued and Adjudged in the Supreme Court of the United States
Author: United States. Supreme CourtPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law reports, digests, etc
Languages : en
Pages : 874
Book Description
The Age of Expert Testimony
Author: National Research CouncilPublisher: National Academies Press
ISBN: 0309083109
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 81
Book Description
The federal courts are seeking ways to increase the ability of judges to deal with difficult issues of scientific expert testimony. The workshop explored the new environment judges, plaintiffs, defendants, and experts face in light of "Daubert" and "Kumho," when presenting and evaluating scientific, engineering, and medical evidence.
Commentaries on the Constitution of the United States
Author: Joseph StoryPublisher:
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Category : Constitutional history
Languages : en
Pages : 790
Book Description
Pattern Criminal Jury Instructions
Author: District Judges Association, Sixth Circuit. Committee on Pattern Criminal Jury InstructionsPublisher:
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Category : Criminal procedure
Languages : en
Pages : 456
Book Description
Historia Placitorum Coronae
Author: Matthew HalePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Criminal law
Languages : en
Pages : 784
Book Description
Congressional Record
Author: United States. CongressPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 1266
Book Description
The Congressional Record is the official record of the proceedings and debates of the United States Congress. It is published daily when Congress is in session. The Congressional Record began publication in 1873. Debates for sessions prior to 1873 are recorded in The Debates and Proceedings in the Congress of the United States (1789-1824), the Register of Debates in Congress (1824-1837), and the Congressional Globe (1833-1873)