Annual supplement to West's Encyclopedia of American Law that updates and expands the content with new topics, updates, biographies of prominent figures and government appointees, and other features. Each year's edition contains the full U.S. Supreme Court docket in addition to the non-Supreme Court cases.
Examines the history and opinions surrounding the issue of DNA evidence from the early use of fingerprinting to identify civil servants, to the latest advances in DNA typing in criminal investigations.
Theodore Roosevelt, J.P. MOrgan, and the battle to transform American capitalism
Berfield, Susan
2020
"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.
writers reflect on 100 years of landmark ACLU cases
Chabon, Michael
2020
"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 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 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.
