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Outside the Law: Narratives on Justice in America
by Susan Richar Shreve Book News Annotation Eighteen contributors explore the difference between true justice and the law, touching on issues including the O.J. Simpson trial, the idea of true morality, gay rights, and the effects of injustice. They relate their personal experiences with the...
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The Prosecutors
by Gary Delsohn Publisher Comments Rick Brewer thought the robbery would be "easy in, easy out" when he rounded up a team to rob the Bread Store. But when they arrived, there was no money, and Brewer shot employee Jason Frost three times at close range with a sawed-off Mossberg shotgun...
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Law's Promise, Law's Expression: Visions of Power in the Politics of Race, Gender, and Religion
by Kenneth L Karst Publisher Comments The conservative ""social issues agenda"" promises to use the power of law to effect a cultural counterrevolution that would negate the successes of the civil rights movement, the women's movement, and the gay rights movement. In this lively and...
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Loony Laws & Silly Statutes
by Sh Lindsell Roberts Publisher Comments Hundreds of the most ridiculous rules lawmakers have ever put into writing, drawn from actual city, state, and federal statute books. Find what has been forbidden about keeping pets (cats require tail lights in Sterling, Colorado), fishing and hunting...
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Courts, Corrections, and the Constitution: The Impact of Judicial Intervention on Prisons and Jails
by John J Jr Di Iulio Publisher Comments By some definitions, most American prisons and jails are overcrowded; by any definition, many penal facilities are filthy and violence-ridden. Over the last twenty years, dozens of state and local corrections systems have come under court orders to...
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Chickens May Not Cross the Road and Other Crazy (But True) Laws: And Other Crazy (But True) Laws
by Kathi Linz Publisher Comments It is against the law in Brooklyn, New York, for donkeys to sleep in bathtubs. In Idaho you are not allowed to fish while sitting on a giraffe. In California you must not keep slugs as pets. Yes, it's the law--says so right on the state or city books...
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Living the Bill of Rights
by Nat Hentoff Publisher Comments Nat Hentoff is one of America's foremost and most passionate writers about civil liberties and civil rights. In Living the Bill of Rights, he has taken what is too often thought of as an abstract issue and enlivened it by focusing on representative...
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The Electronic Media and the Transformation of Law
by M Ethan Katsh Publisher Comments Highly publicized legal cases, such as those involving libel verdicts, obscenity prosecutions, the First Amendment, and other areas of media law have focused attention on only one part of the media's impact on law. This study, the first to explore the...
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Causes and Conflicts: The Centennial History of the Association of the Bar of the City of New York, 1870-1970
by George Martin Publisher Comments More than a century ago over 200 leading lawyers met in a schoolroom on Fifth Avenue and Twenty-Sixth Street to organize the Association of the Bar of the City of New York. They were hot with reform and with the sting of professional shame. Boss Tweed...
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Taking Sides Clashing Views O
by M Ethan Katsh Publisher Comments This debate-style reader is designed to introduce students to controversies in the law. The readings, which represent the arguments of leading legal scholars, judges, and legal commentators, reflect a variety of viewpoints and are staged as "pro" and...
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From Freedom to Slavery: The Rebirth of Tyranny in America
by Gerry Spence Publisher Comments Never afraid to take on tough cases or tackle difficult issues, here in From Freedom to Slavery Gerry Spence comes at us uncensored, with his passions on fire. In this underground bestseller, which has come to define Spence's political philosophy, he...
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In America's Court: How a Civil Lawyer Who Likes to Settle Stumbled Into a Criminal Trial
by Thomas Geoghegan Publisher Comments [Thomas Geoghegan] possesses a felicitous writing style that can marry anecdote and analysis....
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The Fourth Estate and the Constitution: Freedom of the Press in America
by Lucas Powe Publisher Comments 'The Fourth Estate and the Constitution, written in a lively, colloquial style by someone who knows how to tell a good story, is not only a thoughtful discussion of press freedom but also enjoyable to read...Powe's suggestions..merit careful...
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Red Zone: The Behind-The-Scenes Story of the San Francisco Dog Mauling
by Aphrodite Jones Publisher Comments < P> < b> Bestselling true crime writer Aphrodite Jones& #2035; hocking new information behind the San Francisco dog mauling of Diane Whipple and the trial that has captured the nation's attention for over a year. < /b> < /P> &...
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Visas! Visas! Visas!: Sesenta Maneras (Legales) de Inmigrar A Ee.Uu. (Guias Practicas)
by Debbie M Schell Publisher Comments The book will cover more than 60 visas that are now available for immigrants coming to the United States; some new since the changes to the Immigration Bureau as a result of 9/11. Specifically, more than twenty new visas have been added as a result of...
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Privacy on the Line: The Politics of Wiretapping and Encryption
by Whitfield Diffie Publisher Comments Telecommunication has never been perfectly secure, as a Cold War culture of wiretaps and international spying taught us. Yet many of us still take our privacy for granted, even as we become more reliant than ever on telephones, computer networks, and...
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We the People's Guide to Bankruptcy: A Do-It-Yourself Plan for Getting Out of Debt
by Ira Distenfield Publisher Comments We The People s do-it-yourself guide to bankruptcy We The People, the largest legal document services franchise in the United States, gives normal people around the country the tools and advice they need to file paperwork and handle basic legal...
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Supreme Folly
by Rodney Jones Publisher Comments Rodney Jones and Gerald Uelman return with all-new unintentionally hilarious incidents from legal cases of all kinds, including folly in the Supreme Court. Here are laughably choice courtroom exchanges, incriminating evidence, and the comical results of...
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The Warren Court and the Pursuit of Justice
by Morton Horwitz Publisher Comments The Hill and Wang Critical Issues Series: concise, affordable works on pivotal topics in American history, society, and politics. The men who made up the Supreme Court when Earl Warren was Chief Justice (1953-69) changed America forever, and their...
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Statutes on Criminal Law (Blackstone's Statutes)
by Peter Glazebrook Publisher Comments Fully revised and updated to include all legislation passed through to June 2003, this edition of Statutes on Criminal Law provides comprehensive coverage of all the major Criminal Law documents needed by undergraduates. An appendix details some draft...
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