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xvi, 499 pages ; 24 cm
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English
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"Each entry provides an up-to-date official citation, the date the case was argued and decided, the vote of the Justices, who wrote the opinion for the Court, who concurred, and who dissented. More importantly, the entries feature an informative account of the particulars of the case, the legal and social background, the reasoning behind the Court's decision, and the case's impact on American society."--Front flap of jacket.
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Late in 1995, the U.S. Supreme Court heard the case of Jaffee v. Redmond, over the issue of psychotherapy-patient confidentiality and specifically whether a clinical social worker and her client had the right to withhold case notes in a federal court proceeding. In early 1996 the Supreme Court ruled that, in all federal courts, the principle of privacy and confidentiality of therapeutic disclosures trumped the evidentiary value of such notes (with...
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On the eve of a presidential election that may determine the makeup of Supreme Court justices for decades to come, prominent attorney James D. Zirin argues that the Court has become increasingly partisan, rapidly making policy choices right and left on bases that have nothing to do with law or the Constitution. Zirin explains how we arrived at the present situation and looks at the current divide through its leading partisans, Justices Ruth Bader...
4) Supreme conflict: the inside story of the struggle for control of the United States Supreme Court
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340 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
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English
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For more than a century, Black's Law Dictionary has been the gold standard for the language of law. This edition contains more than 50,000 terms, including more than 7,500 terms new to this edition. It also features expanded bibliographic coverage, definitions of more than 1,000 law-related abbreviations and acronyms, and reviewed and edited Latin maxims.
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319 pages ; 21 cm
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English
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When a Supreme Court justice is killed in the middle of a botched robbery, former Secret Service agent Joseph Reeder, who is requested by an old FBI friend Gabe Sloan to help with the investigation, is convinced that the killing was premeditated.
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1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 23 x 29 cm
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English
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"Discover the incredible story of Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, who followed her childhood dream of becoming a lawyer and eventually became the first Black woman to sit on the US Supreme Court in this picture book biography."--
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vii, 292 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
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Former Justice Stevens discusses the accomplishments of the earliest Chief Justices and the role of Chief Justice, profiles each of the Chief Justices he knew personally and their most important cases, and describes his relationship with each.
15) Thurgood
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1 volume (unpaged) : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 27 x 27 cm
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"Before Rosa Parks, before Martin Luther King Jr., before the civil rights movement there was Thurgood, fighting for African Americans - and winning. Here is the powerful story of the trailblazer who proved that separate is not equal." --
17) Mi mundo adorado
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Español
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La primera latina y tan sólo la tercera mujer designada a la Corte Suprema de los Estados Unidos, Sonia Sotomayor se ha convertido en un icono americano contemporáneo. Ahora, con un candor e intimidad nunca antes asumidos por un juez en activo, Sonia nos narra el viaje de su vida -- desde los proyectos del Bronx hasta la corte federal -- en una inspiradora celebración de su extraordinaria determinación y del poder de creer en uno mismo.
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231 pages ; 23 cm
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"It's a position Will Burleigh has worked toward his entire career -- a spot on the United States Supreme Court. With the support of his wife, Sarah, Will is excited at the prospect of sitting on the highest court of the nation. But when the confirmation process begins, things take a turn neither Will nor Sarah ever expected. After one of their close personal friends dies in a suspicious accident and they are attacked in their own home, Will and...
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