Historic U.S. Court Cases: An Encyclopedia

ISBN-13: 9780415930192 / Angielski / Twarda / 2001 / 1128 str.

John W. Johnson

Opis

This collection of essays looks at over 200 major court cases, at both state and federal levels, from the colonial period to the present. The articles include recent topics such as the Microsoft antitrust case and the OJ Simpson trials.

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Witchcraft and the Law; Two Nations: the Case of Sacco and Vanzetti; Showdown Over Gun Control; From the 'Political Thicket' to 'One Man, One Vote'; The Travails of William Jefferson Clinton; When a Contract Obtained by Fraud is Still a Contract; Products Liability Law and McDonald's Coffee; Slavery, Freedom and Federal Judicial Power; Separate Education is Not Equal Education; Native American Land Claims - The Indians Finally Win; The Japanese Internment Cases; Cold War, Communism and Free Speech; Flag Burning and the Constution; The Scopes Trial: A Collision of Cultures; Physician-Assisted Suicide: Who Shall Decide?; The Boston Massacre Trials; Icons of the Cold War: The Hiss-Chambers Case; The O.J. Simpson Trials as Popular Drama

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John W. Johnson is professor and head of the history department at the University of Northern Iowa in Cedar Falls. He is the author of The Dimensions of Non-Legal Evidence in the American Judicial Process and Insuring Against Disaster: The Nuclear Industry on Trial and has served as series editor for Garland publications on American law and society.