No Day in Court
Title | No Day in Court PDF eBook |
Author | Sarah L. Staszak |
Publisher | Oxford University Press, USA |
Pages | 321 |
Release | 2015 |
Genre | Law |
ISBN | 0199399042 |
While the majority of the landmark laws and legal precedents expanding access to justice in the United States remain intact, less than 2 percent of civil cases are decided by a trial today. What explains this phenomenon, and why it is so difficult to get one's day in court? This book examines the sustained efforts of political and legal actors to scale back access to the courts in the decades since it was expanded, largely in the service of the rights revolution of the 1950s and 60s.
No Day in Court
Title | No Day in Court PDF eBook |
Author | Sarah L. Staszak |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Pages | 321 |
Release | 2015 |
Genre | Law |
ISBN | 0199399034 |
We are now more than half a century removed from height of the rights revolution, a time when the federal government significantly increased legal protection for disadvantaged individuals and groups, leading in the process to a dramatic expansion in access to courts and judicial authority to oversee these protections. Yet while the majority of the landmark laws and legal precedents expanding access to justice remain intact, less than two percent of civil cases are decided by a trial today. What explains this phenomenon, and why it is so difficult to get one's day in court? No Day in Court examines the sustained efforts of political and legal actors to scale back access to the courts in the decades since it was expanded, largely in the service of the rights revolution of the 1950s and 1960s. Since that time, for political, ideological, and practical reasons, a multifaceted group of actors have attempted to diminish the role that courts play in American politics. Although the conventional narrative of backlash focuses on an increasingly conservative Supreme Court, Congress, and activists aiming to constrain the developments of the Civil Rights era, there is another very important element to this story, in which access to the courts for rights claims has been constricted by efforts that target the "rules of the game: " the institutional and legal procedures that govern what constitutes a valid legal case, who can be sued, how a case is adjudicated, and what remedies are available through courts. These more hidden, procedural changes are pursued by far more than just conservatives, and they often go overlooked. No Day in Court explores the politics of these strategies and the effect that they have today for access to justice in the U.S.
Out of Order
Title | Out of Order PDF eBook |
Author | Sandra Day O'Connor |
Publisher | Random House Incorporated |
Pages | 257 |
Release | 2013 |
Genre | Law |
ISBN | 0812993926 |
The former Supreme Court justice shares stories about the history and evolution of the Supreme Court that traces the roles of key contributors while sharing the events behind important transformations.
No Day in Court
Title | No Day in Court PDF eBook |
Author | Sarah L. Staszak |
Publisher | |
Pages | 299 |
Release | 2014 |
Genre | Political questions and judicial power |
ISBN | 9780190221713 |
While the majority of the landmark laws and legal precedents expanding access to justice in the United States remain intact, less than 2 percent of civil cases are decided by a trial today. What explains this phenomenon, and why it is so difficult to get one's day in court? This book examines the sustained efforts of political and legal actors to scale back access to the courts in the decades since it was expanded, largely in the service of the rights revolution of the 1950s and 60s.
How to Win Your Case in Small Claims Court Without a Lawyer
Title | How to Win Your Case in Small Claims Court Without a Lawyer PDF eBook |
Author | Charlie Mann |
Publisher | Atlantic Publishing Company |
Pages | 290 |
Release | 2009 |
Genre | Law |
ISBN | 1601383061 |
" ... With this comprehensive guide, you will get a complete run-through of everything you need to know before you submit your case to court. The book includes a checklist of things you need to look for before filing a claim, information on how the courts work, and all of the legal jargon--defined--that will be thrown around during the process. You will learn how to state a claim in formal documents and whether your case has a chance of win[n]ing. Different approaches to more than 15 different kinds of small claims cases are provided, along with the limitations on monetary compensation and methods for calculating your own limit. Different legal procedures for bringing legal action against individuals, couples, businesses, and corporations are also provided"--Page 4 of cover.
History on Trial
Title | History on Trial PDF eBook |
Author | Deborah E. Lipstadt |
Publisher | Harper Collins |
Pages | 402 |
Release | 2006-04-04 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0060593776 |
In her acclaimed 1993 book Denying the Holocaust, Deborah Lipstadt called putative WWII historian David Irving "one of the most dangerous spokespersons for Holocaust denial." A prolific author of books on Nazi Germany who has claimed that more people died in Ted Kennedy's car at Chappaquiddick than in the gas chambers at Auschwitz, Irving responded by filing a libel lawsuit in the United Kingdom -- where the burden of proof lies on the defendant, not on the plaintiff. At stake were not only the reputations of two historians but the record of history itself.
There's No Justice, Just Court Costs
Title | There's No Justice, Just Court Costs PDF eBook |
Author | Lawrence B. Fox |
Publisher | |
Pages | 228 |
Release | 1999 |
Genre | Humor |
ISBN | 9780966340228 |