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Languages : en
Pages : 56
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Northern Pacific Railway Company V. United States of America
Author: Northern Pacific Railway Company V. United States of America
Author: Decisions of the Comptroller General of the United States
Author: United States. General Accounting OfficePublisher:
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Category : Finance, Public
Languages : en
Pages : 1040
Book Description
March, September, and December issues include index digests, and June issue includes cumulative tables and index digest.
Records and Briefs of the United States Supreme Court
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Category : Law reports, digests, etc
Languages : en
Pages : 1632
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Decisions of the Department of the Interior
Author: United States. Department of the InteriorPublisher:
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Category : Public lands
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
United States Courts of Appeals Reports
Author: United States. Courts of AppealsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law reports, digests, etc
Languages : en
Pages : 810
Book Description
United States Reports
Author: United States. Supreme CourtPublisher:
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Category : Law reports, digests, etc
Languages : en
Pages : 1940
Book Description
Railroads and American Law
Author: James W. Ely, Jr.Publisher: University Press of Kansas
ISBN: 0700611444
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 376
Book Description
No enterprise is so seductive as a railroad for the influence it exerts, the power it gives, and the hope of gain it offers.—Poor's Manual of Railroads (1900) At its peak, the railroad was the Internet of its day in its transformative impact on American life and law. A harbinger and promoter of economic empire, it was also the icon of a technological revolution that accelerated national expansion and in the process transformed our legal system. James W. Ely Jr., in the first comprehensive legal history of the rail industry, shows that the two institutions-the railroad and American law-had a profound influence on each other. Ely chronicles how "America's first big business" impelled the creation of a vast array of new laws in a country where long-distance internal transport had previously been limited to canals and turnpikes. Railroads, the first major industry to experience extensive regulation, brought about significant legal innovations governing interstate commerce, eminent domain, private property, labor relations, and much more. Much of this development was originally designed to serve the interests of the railroads themselves but gradually came to contest and control the industry's power and exploitative tendencies. As Ely reveals, despite its great promise and potential as an engine of prosperity and uniter of far-flung regions, the railroad was not universally admired. Railroads uprooted people, threatened local autonomy, and posed dangers to employees and the public alike-situations with unprecedented legal ramifications. Ely explores the complex and sometimes contradictory ways in which those ramifications played out, as railroads crossed state lines and knitted together a diverse nation with thousands of miles of iron rail. Epic in its scope, Railroads and American Law makes a complex subject accessible to a wide range of readers, from legal historians to railroad buffs, and shows the many ways in which a powerful industry brought change and innovation to America.
Procedural Changes Affecting Public Utilities Commission
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on the District of ColumbiaPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 114
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The Supreme Court Justices
Author: Melvin UrofskyPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 113674746X
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 598
Book Description
First published in 1994. In the two centuries of governance under the Constitution, 105 men and two women have sat as justices on the nation’s highest tribunal, the Supreme Court of the United States. Each of them has brought some unique insights or talents to that position. Contributors to this volume were asked to concentrate on the judicial tenure of their subjects, and to interpret those careers and evaluate their importance. They were asked to deal with the pre-Court years only insofar as those experiences had a major impact on jurisprudence.