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"Tells the story of J. P. Morgan, a banker, and Theodore Roosevelt, the president, who were thrown together in the crucible of national emergency even as they fought in court. The outcome of the coal miners strike and the antitrust casewould change the course of history"--Adapted from dust jacket.

"In collaboration with the ACLU, authors Michael Chabon and Ayelet Waldman have curated an anthology of essays about landmark cases in the organization's one-hundred-year history"--OCLC.

Profiles cases related to consumer protection, antitrust, labor rights, and corporate law.

Profiles a variety of cases related to the broad range of civil rights related issues, from affirmative action, segregation, and voting rights to the special concerns of immigrants, juveniles, the disabled, and gay and lesbian citizens.

Profiles legal cases that have helped establish the rights of the accused before, during, and after trial, or address criminal law and procedure.

Profiles judicial proceedings that have influenced such First and Second Amendment issues as freedom of the press, privacy, the right to bear arms, and the legal concerns of the Internet.

Provides accounts of seventeen crimes and trials that achieved celebrity status, beginning with the stand-off between American Indian Movement activists and the FBI at Pine Ridge Reservation in 1971 and continuing through the Abu Ghraib torture and prisoner abuse scandal of 2004, each with photographs, sidebars, and references; and includes an introductory essay that examines the social and historical contexts in which the cases occurred.

Provides accounts of eighteen crimes and trials that achieved celebrity status, beginning with the Black Sox scandal of 1919 and continuing through the Attica prison riots of 1971, each with photographs, sidebars, and references; and includes an introductory essay that examines the social and historical contexts in which the cases occurred.

Contains five appendixes, an annotated bibliography, glossary, a time line of the cases, and categorized lists of the entries, along with a photo index and general subject index.

Contains over 670 articles on court cases, arranged alphabetically by their best-known names, along with essays that examine groups of cases, and provides information on the courts where decisions were made, official citation numbers, dates of the rulings, brief summaries, and related information.