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Languages : en
Pages : 34
Book Description
Williams V. Owens
Author: Justice Deferred
Author: Orville Vernon BurtonPublisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674975642
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 465
Book Description
In the first comprehensive accounting of the U.S. Supreme CourtÕs race-related jurisprudence, a distinguished historian and renowned civil rights lawyer scrutinize a legacy too often blighted by racial injustice. The Supreme Court is usually seen as protector of our liberties: it ended segregation, was a guarantor of fair trials, and safeguarded free speech and the vote. But this narrative derives mostly from a short period, from the 1930s to the early 1970s. Before then, the Court spent a century largely ignoring or suppressing basic rights, while the fifty years since 1970 have witnessed a mostly accelerating retreat from racial justice. From the Cherokee Trail of Tears to Brown v. Board of Education to the dismantling of the Voting Rights Act, historian Orville Vernon Burton and civil rights lawyer Armand Derfner shine a powerful light on the CourtÕs race recordÑa legacy at times uplifting, but more often distressing and sometimes disgraceful. For nearly a century, the Court ensured that the nineteenth-century Reconstruction amendments would not truly free and enfranchise African Americans. And the twenty-first century has seen a steady erosion of commitments to enforcing hard-won rights. Justice Deferred is the first book that comprehensively charts the CourtÕs race jurisprudence. Addressing nearly two hundred cases involving AmericaÕs racial minorities, the authors probe the parties involved, the justicesÕ reasoning, and the impact of individual rulings. We learn of heroes such as Thurgood Marshall; villains, including Roger Taney; and enigmas like Oliver Wendell Holmes and Hugo Black. Much of the fragility of civil rights in America is due to the Supreme Court, but as this sweeping history also reminds us, the justices still have the power to make good on the countryÕs promise of equal rights for all.
Pomeroy's Equity Jurisprudence and Equitable Remedies: A treatise on equity jurisprudence
Author: Pleading and Practice in the Courts of Chancery
Author: Robert Thomas BartonPublisher:
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Category : Equity pleading and procedure
Languages : en
Pages : 778
Book Description
A Treatise on Equity Jurisprudence, as Administered in the United States of America
Author: John Norton PomeroyPublisher:
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Category : Equity
Languages : en
Pages : 1318
Book Description
The American Decisions
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Category : Law reports, digests, etc
Languages : en
Pages : 860
Book Description
Official Reports of the Supreme Court
Author: United States. Supreme CourtPublisher:
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Category : Constitutional law
Languages : en
Pages : 444
Book Description
The English Reports: Chancery
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Category : Law reports, digests, etc
Languages : en
Pages : 1300
Book Description
V. 1-11. House of Lords (1677-1865) -- v. 12-20. Privy Council (including Indian Appeals) (1809-1865) -- v. 21-47. Chancery (including Collateral reports) (1557-1865) -- v. 48-55. Rolls Court (1829-1865) -- v. 56-71. Vice-Chancellors' Courts (1815-1865) -- v. 72-122. King's Bench (1378-1865) -- v. 123-144. Common Pleas (1486-1865) -- v. 145-160. Exchequer (1220-1865) -- v. 161-167. Ecclesiastical (1752-1857), Admiralty (1776-1840), and Probate and Divorce (1858-1865) -- v. 168-169. Crown Cases (1743-1865) -- v. 170-176. Nisi Prius (1688-1867).
The American Decisions
Author: John ProffattPublisher:
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Category : Law reports, digests, etc
Languages : en
Pages : 852
Book Description
Irish Chancery Reports
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Category : Law reports, digests, etc
Languages : en
Pages : 634
Book Description