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Jane Crow: The Life of Pauli Murray by Rosalind Rosenberg
epub |eng | 2017-03-18 | Author:Rosalind Rosenberg

Adding “Sex” to Title VII Murray faced not just divided women’s and civil rights movements but also a problem inherent in the Fourteenth Amendment. The Equal Protection Clause covered only ...
( Category: Women March 18,2018 )
Covering by Kenji Yoshino
epub |eng | 2011-10-18 | Author:Kenji Yoshino [Yoshino, Kenji]

( Category: Ethnic Studies June 19,2017 )
The Court of Last Resort by Erle Stanley Gardner
epub |eng | 2017-01-12 | Author:Erle Stanley Gardner

9 It must not be thought that all of our cases resulted in triumphant vindications of our judgment, or in demonstrations of a defendant’s innocence. We encountered a good many ...
( Category: Lawyers & Judges May 19,2017 )
Illusion of Justice by Jerome F. Buting
epub |eng | 2017-02-05 | Author:Jerome F. Buting

21 “A defendant’s confession is like no other evidence,” U.S. Supreme Court justice Byron White wrote in 1991. “It is probably the most probative and damaging evidence that can be ...
( Category: Lawyers & Judges April 26,2017 )
Iran Awakening by Shirin Ebadi
azw3 |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Shirin Ebadi

My two daughters were growing old enough that they came home from school each day with a barrage of questions. Thud. They would toss their backpacks in the hallway. Thud ...
( Category: Human Rights February 24,2017 )
The Butler's Child by Lewis M. Steel
epub |eng | | Author:Lewis M. Steel

15 Tony Maynard At around four in the morning of April 3, 1967, a white Marine sergeant, Michael Kroll, dressed in his uniform and recently back from the Vietnam War, ...
( Category: State & Local June 15,2016 )
Scalia by Bruce Allen Murphy
epub |eng | | Author:Bruce Allen Murphy

CHAPTER 19 The Dead Constitution Tour His charm offensive now over, for the first time Scalia knew what position he would hold for the rest of his professional life. As ...
( Category: Lawyers & Judges May 27,2016 )
The Golden Cage by Shirin Ebadi
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Shirin Ebadi

A week later we were invited to Evin to see the doctor. Evidently Iran’s “justice system” was functioning fine, as long as you knew who to pay. My father asked ...
( Category: Middle East May 13,2016 )
1627229191 (N) by Terrence Hake
mobi |eng | 2015-04-17 | Author:Terrence Hake

So the judge boarded a train with his little daughter and took an apartment near the Traffic Court Building for an indefinite stay. Although the FBI would use several other ...
( Category: State & Local April 21,2016 )
RFK Jr. by Jerry Oppenheimer
epub |eng | | Author:Jerry Oppenheimer

TWENTY Emotional Changes Bobby was faced with both love and sorrow in the nine months between asking Emily Black to be his wife and the loss of the one person ...
( Category: State & Local March 2,2016 )
A Piece of Cake: A Memoir by Cupcake Brown
epub |eng | 2005-01-02 | Author:Cupcake Brown [Brown, Cupcake]

36 AROUND THIS TIME, I discovered ready rock. Ready rock is best described as “freebasin’ to go.” Prior to ready rock, a buyer had to take the powdered coke home ...
( Category: African-American & Black January 14,2016 )
Notorious RBG by Carmon Irin & Knizhnik Shana
epub |eng | 2015-10-26 | Author:Carmon, Irin & Knizhnik, Shana

“I’m gon’ call my crew” Steve Petteway, Collection of the Supreme Court of the United States No one would be confusing the three women for one another. Her new colleagues, ...
( Category: Lawyers & Judges December 26,2015 )
Sisters in Law by Linda Hirshman
epub, mobi |eng | 2015-07-05 | Author:Linda Hirshman

WINDING UP TO THE PITCH For someone about to nominate a brilliant, beautifully educated, experienced, and symbolic candidate, Clinton spent a long time considering. Partly this was not his fault. ...
( Category: Judicial Branch October 10,2015 )
Lawyers Gone Bad by Philip Slayton
epub |eng | | Author:Philip Slayton

ELEVEN THE CRIMINALS PICK THEMSELVES Richard Shead Richard Shead was a prominent tax lawyer who helped a flamboyant con artist structure and execute a complex fraud that separated many ordinary ...
( Category: Lawyers & Judges October 10,2015 )
Criminal That I Am by Jennifer Ridha
epub |eng | | Author:Jennifer Ridha

With the proceedings over, I walk out of the courtroom and begin to breathe a sigh of relief. I suck it back in quickly when I see standing in front ...
( Category: Lawyers & Judges June 12,2015 )

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