Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the JudiciaryPublisher:
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Category : Actions and defenses
Languages : en
Pages : 836
Book Description
Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Reform Act
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the JudiciaryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Actions and defenses
Languages : en
Pages : 836
Book Description
RICO Reform Act of 1989
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on CrimePublisher:
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Category : Corporation law
Languages : en
Pages : 1272
Book Description
Mistreatment of Aliens in America
Author: Ralph OkoroPublisher: Strategic Insight Publishing
ISBN: 1908064064
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
'Mistreatment of Aliens in America' looks at the political struggle for justice, as seen by a migrant from West Africa.
Why Busing Failed
Author: Matthew F. DelmontPublisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520959876
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 299
Book Description
In the decades after the landmark Brown v. Board of Education Supreme Court decision, busing to achieve school desegregation became one of the nation’s most controversial civil rights issues. Why Busing Failed is the first book to examine the pitched battles over busing on a national scale, focusing on cities such as Boston, Chicago, New York, and Pontiac, Michigan. This groundbreaking book shows how school officials, politicians, the courts, and the media gave precedence to the desires of white parents who opposed school desegregation over the civil rights of black students. This broad and incisive history of busing features a cast of characters that includes national political figures such as then-president Richard Nixon, Chicago mayor Richard J. Daley, and antibusing advocate Louise Day Hicks, as well as some lesser-known activists on both sides of the issue—Boston civil rights leaders Ruth Batson and Ellen Jackson, who opposed segregated schools, and Pontiac housewife and antibusing activist Irene McCabe, black conservative Clay Smothers, and Florida governor Claude Kirk, all supporters of school segregation. Why Busing Failed shows how antibusing parents and politicians ultimately succeeded in preventing full public school desegregation.
SEC Docket
Author: United States. Securities and Exchange CommissionPublisher:
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Category : Securities
Languages : en
Pages : 1220
Book Description
ABA Journal
Author: Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 126
Book Description
The ABA Journal serves the legal profession. Qualified recipients are lawyers and judges, law students, law librarians and associate members of the American Bar Association.
United States of America V. Wilson
Author: The Torture Machine
Author: Flint TaylorPublisher: Haymarket Books
ISBN: 1608468968
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description
With his colleagues at the People’s Law Office (PLO), Taylor has argued landmark civil rights cases that have exposed corruption and cover-up within the Chicago Police Department (CPD) and throughout the city’s political machine, from aldermen to the mayor’s office. [TAYLOR’s BOOK] takes the reader from the 1969 murders of Black Panther Party chairman Fred Hampton and Panther Mark Clark—and the historic, thirteen-year trial that followed—through the dogged pursuit of chief detective Jon Burge, the leader of a torture ring within the CPD that used barbaric methods, including electric shock, to elicit false confessions from suspects. Taylor and the PLO gathered evidence from multiple cases to bring suit against the CPD, breaking the department’s “code of silence” that had enabled decades of cover-up. The legal precedents they set have since been adopted in human rights legislation around the world.
To Trust the People with Arms
Author: Robert J. CottrolPublisher: University Press of Kansas
ISBN: 0700635718
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
In 2007, for the first time in nearly seventy years, the Supreme Court decided to hear a case involving the Second Amendment. The resulting decision in District of Columbia v. Heller (2008) was the first time the Court declared a firearms restriction to be unconstitutional on the basis of the Second Amendment. It was followed two years later by a similar decision in McDonald v. City of Chicago, and in 2022, the Court further expanded its support for Second Amendment rights in New York State Rifle and Pistol Association v. Bruen—a decision whose far-reaching implications are still being unraveled.To Trust the People with Arms explores the remarkable and complex legal history of how the right to bear arms was widely accepted during the nation’s founding, was near extinction in the late twentieth century, and is now experiencing a rebirth in the Supreme Court in the twenty-first century. Robert J. Cottrol and Brannon P. Denning link the right to bear arms with other major themes in American history. Prompted by the eighteenth-century belief that arms played a vital role in preserving the liberties of the citizen, the Second Amendment met many challenges in the nation’s history. Among the most acute of these were racism, racial violence, and the extension of the right to bear arms to African Americans and other marginalized groups. The development of modern firearms and twentieth-century urbanization also challenged traditional notions concerning the value of an armed population. Cottrol and Denning make a particularly important contribution linking the nation’s participation in the wars of the twentieth century and the strengthening of American gun culture. Most of all, they give a nuanced and sophisticated legal history that engages legal realism, different varieties of originalism, and the role of chance and accident in history. To Trust the People with Arms integrates history, politics, and law in an interdisciplinary way to illustrate the roles that guns and the right to keep and bear arms have played in American history, culture, and law.
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