Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the JudiciaryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Civil procedure
Languages : en
Pages : 326
Book Description
Litigation Abuse Reform Act of 1986
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the JudiciaryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Civil procedure
Languages : en
Pages : 326
Book Description
Legislative and Executive Calendar
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the JudiciaryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Calendars
Languages : en
Pages : 444
Book Description
No Day in Court
Author: Sarah L. StaszakPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199399034
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 321
Book Description
We are now more than half a century removed from height of the rights revolution, a time when the federal government significantly increased legal protection for disadvantaged individuals and groups, leading in the process to a dramatic expansion in access to courts and judicial authority to oversee these protections. Yet while the majority of the landmark laws and legal precedents expanding access to justice remain intact, less than two percent of civil cases are decided by a trial today. What explains this phenomenon, and why it is so difficult to get one's day in court? No Day in Court examines the sustained efforts of political and legal actors to scale back access to the courts in the decades since it was expanded, largely in the service of the rights revolution of the 1950s and 1960s. Since that time, for political, ideological, and practical reasons, a multifaceted group of actors have attempted to diminish the role that courts play in American politics. Although the conventional narrative of backlash focuses on an increasingly conservative Supreme Court, Congress, and activists aiming to constrain the developments of the Civil Rights era, there is another very important element to this story, in which access to the courts for rights claims has been constricted by efforts that target the "rules of the game: " the institutional and legal procedures that govern what constitutes a valid legal case, who can be sued, how a case is adjudicated, and what remedies are available through courts. These more hidden, procedural changes are pursued by far more than just conservatives, and they often go overlooked. No Day in Court explores the politics of these strategies and the effect that they have today for access to justice in the U.S.
Legislative Calendar
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on the JudiciaryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 714
Book Description
Privatizing Justice
Author: Sarah StaszakPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0197771726
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 305
Book Description
While the use of arbitration in the private sector has grown dramatically in recent decades, arbitration itself is not new. Yet the practice today looks very different than it did at its origins. How did arbitration shift from providing a low cost, less adversarial, and more efficient way of handling disputes between relative equals to a private, non-reviewable, and compulsory forum for resolving disputes between individuals and corporations that almost always favors the latter? Privatizing Justice examines the broader institutional, political, and legal dynamics that shaped this century-long transformation and explains why the system that emerged has shifted power to corporations, exacerbated inequality, and eroded democracy.
Monthly Catalog of United States Government Publications
Author: Monthly Catalogue, United States Public Documents
Author: Publisher:
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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 1338
Book Description
McCarran-Ferguson Act and the Current Crisis in Liability Insurance
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Monopolies and Commercial LawPublisher:
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Category : Antitrust law
Languages : en
Pages : 490
Book Description
United States Code
Author: United StatesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 1146
Book Description
"The United States Code is the official codification of the general and permanent laws of the United States of America. The Code was first published in 1926, and a new edition of the code has been published every six years since 1934. The 2012 edition of the Code incorporates laws enacted through the One Hundred Twelfth Congress, Second Session, the last of which was signed by the President on January 15, 2013. It does not include laws of the One Hundred Thirteenth Congress, First Session, enacted between January 2, 2013, the date it convened, and January 15, 2013. By statutory authority this edition may be cited "U.S.C. 2012 ed." As adopted in 1926, the Code established prima facie the general and permanent laws of the United States. The underlying statutes reprinted in the Code remained in effect and controlled over the Code in case of any discrepancy. In 1947, Congress began enacting individual titles of the Code into positive law. When a title is enacted into positive law, the underlying statutes are repealed and the title then becomes legal evidence of the law. Currently, 26 of the 51 titles in the Code have been so enacted. These are identified in the table of titles near the beginning of each volume. The Law Revision Counsel of the House of Representatives continues to prepare legislation pursuant to 2 U.S.C. 285b to enact the remainder of the Code, on a title-by-title basis, into positive law. The 2012 edition of the Code was prepared and published under the supervision of Ralph V. Seep, Law Revision Counsel. Grateful acknowledgment is made of the contributions by all who helped in this work, particularly the staffs of the Office of the Law Revision Counsel and the Government Printing Office"--Preface.
Litigation Abuse Reform Act of 1986
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the JudiciaryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Civil procedure
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description