trials, litigation, etc

Describes how the Brown versus the Board of Education of Topeka Kansas Supreme Court case changed school segregation.

Explores the history and impact on the American judicial system of the Supreme Court case Plessy v. Ferguson.

Examines the history and impact of the Korematsu v. the United States Supreme Court case, when Korematsu, his family, and the Japanese American internment during World War II.

Explores the facts and controversy of the 2000 Florida presidential election recount, as well as the Supreme Court Case that decided George W. Bush the winner.

Examines the issue of capital punishment in the United States by highlighting the case of Furman v. Georgia. Includes full-color photographs and a glossary.

On June 25, 1828, the Mary Russell sailed into Cork Harbour, Ireland, in tandum with another ship, the Mary Stubbs. The Mary Russell was being piloted by Mary Stubbs sailors and had seven murdered crew members on board, a missing captain, and six survivors of the massacre: four boys and two severely wounded seamen.

Valerie Plame Wilson, the former CIA covert operations officer, was born on Elmendorf Air Force Base in Anchorage, Alaska.

This book describes the criminal trial of O.J. Simpson, who was accused of the murder of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ron Goldman, explaining the handling of the forensic evidence became a key point in the trial.

William Pepper, attorney and friend to Martin Luther King, describes his investigation into King's 1968 assassination and claims that King was the victim of a conspiracy involving the FBI, CIA, the military, organized crime, and the Memphis police, and discusses the 1999 wrongful death suit won by the King family.