Williams V. Owens
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Release : 1982
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Release : 1982
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Page : 38 pages
File Size : 16,69 MB
Release : 1986
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Page : 74 pages
File Size : 27,83 MB
Release : 1979
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Page : 922 pages
File Size : 39,34 MB
Release : 1905
Category : Equitable remedies
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Author : Robert Thomas Barton
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Page : 778 pages
File Size : 48,73 MB
Release : 1883
Category : Equity pleading and procedure
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Author : United States. Supreme Court
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Page : 18 pages
File Size : 14,55 MB
Release : 1943
Category : Privileges and immunities
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Author : Orville Vernon Burton
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 465 pages
File Size : 34,5 MB
Release : 2021-05-04
Category : Law
ISBN : 0674975642
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.
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Page : 444 pages
File Size : 21,51 MB
Release : 2014
Category : Constitutional law
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Page : 860 pages
File Size : 20,80 MB
Release : 1886
Category : Law reports, digests, etc
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Author : John Proffatt
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Page : 852 pages
File Size : 12,70 MB
Release : 1879
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