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Norco '80 by Peter Houlahan
epub, azw3 |eng | 2019-03-26 | Author:Peter Houlahan

“HOW MUCH DO YOU WEIGH?” “With or without the lead?” Chris Harven said. San Bernardino Homicide detective Larry Malmberg lit a cigarette and slid a Miranda waiver in front of ...
( Category: Law Enforcement July 18,2019 )
Ugliness and Judgment by Hyde Timothy;
epub |eng | 2019-01-30 | Author:Hyde, Timothy;

Through the decades-long course of Soane’s several encounters with aesthetic commentary, the judgment of ugliness enacted a precipitating role rather than a concluding one. His career included successes and failures, ...
( Category: Criticism July 7,2019 )
Star Spangled Scandal by Chris DeRose
epub |eng | | Author:Chris DeRose

Chapter Thirty-One The Implements of Death * * * “This dreadful affair is the theme of conversation in every social community in the country. No event of a similar kind ...
( Category: Murder & Mayhem June 26,2019 )
Poor Joshua by John R. Howard
epub |eng | 2018-06-14 | Author:John R. Howard

Visions in Conflict: Rehnquist and Blackmun There is no way of knowing whether any of the place names in DeShaney resonated with William Rehnquist, chief justice of the United States. ...
( Category: Child Abuse June 15,2019 )
Theodore Roosevelt for the Defense by Dan Abrams
epub |eng | 2019-03-26 | Author:Dan Abrams

Both Roosevelt and Barnes rented “war rooms” in the luxurious Onondaga Hotel. Although it had opened only five years earlier, in 1915 it expanded to five hundred rooms, in addition ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents June 12,2019 )
Laws of Early Iceland: Gragas I (U of M Icelandic Series) by
azw3 |eng | 2014-09-26 | Author:

Change of assembly attachment must wait passage of three assemblies If a man wants to move his assembly attachment he is to stay where he is for three established assemblies, ...
( Category: Legal History June 6,2019 )
The Otter's Ransom: Moral Accompaniments to Legal Codes in the Icelandic Sagas by Creedle William
azw3, azw |eng | 2015-09-19 | Author:Creedle, William [Creedle, William]

Ethics of the host All this trouble, this pot-stirring by Queen Gunnhild, this defiling of the temple, does not occur sui generis, of course. There is a long history of ...
( Category: Legal History June 6,2019 )
Oliver Wendell Holmes by Stephen Budiansky
epub |eng | 2019-03-16 | Author:Stephen Budiansky

It was far from Holmes’s clearest or most-well-written opinion, either. But it reflected, fundamentally, his view that while a conspiracy by two competitors to keep a third company from entering ...
( Category: Lawyers & Judges June 1,2019 )
The Nonsense Factory by Bruce Cannon Gibney
epub |eng | 2019-05-14 | Author:Bruce Cannon Gibney

Pandemic or Pandemonium? Judging by public opinion, America has experienced an unrelenting increase in crime since 1989, when Gallup began polling the issue.99 Curiously, August 2000 to October 2001 was ...
( Category: Lawyers & Judges June 1,2019 )
Bending Toward Justice by Doug Jones
epub |eng | | Author:Doug Jones

The Bomb A potential loose end in our case was dispelling any doubt that a bomb caused the explosion. There was no physical evidence to prove absolutely that this was ...
( Category: Murder & Mayhem April 29,2019 )
Slavery, law, and politics : the Dred Scott case in historical perspective by Fehrenbacher Don E. (Don Edward) 1920-1997
epub |eng | 1981-03-28 | Author:Fehrenbacher, Don E. (Don Edward), 1920-1997

The Opinion of the Court Historians have been preoccupied with counting noses to determine “what the Court really decided” in the Dred Scott case, and with evaluating the charge of ...
( Category: African-American Studies March 29,2019 )
An Introduction to the Legal System of the United States, Fourth Edition by E. Allan Farnsworth
epub |eng | 2010-06-16 | Author:E. Allan Farnsworth [Farnsworth, E. Allan]

CHARACTERISTICS A contract may be defined as a promise for the breach of which the law gives a remedy,4 though the word “contract” may also be used to refer to ...
( Category: Law Enforcement March 23,2019 )
First by Evan Thomas
epub |eng | 2019-03-18 | Author:Evan Thomas

Four days later, the O’Connors were packing for summer vacation when they got word that President Reagan had nominated Robert Bork, a conservative judge, to replace Justice Powell. Bork had ...
( Category: Women March 20,2019 )
Bourbon Justice by Brian F. Haara
epub |eng | | Author:Brian F. Haara

Fig. 19. Smith, Emery & Co., laboratory analysis of Fine Old Kentucky Taylor, March 31, 1913. E. H. Taylor, Jr. & Sons Co. v. Marion E. Taylor, 1897. Kentucky State ...
( Category: Whiskey March 15,2019 )
Letters From Nuremberg: My Father's Narrative of a Quest for Justice by Christopher Dodd & Lary Bloom
epub |eng | 2007-09-11 | Author:Christopher Dodd & Lary Bloom [Dodd, Christopher & Bloom, Lary]

P.S. Don’t get upset about plumbers or the well—or anything else—do the best you can under the circumstances. November 5, 1945 Nürnberg, Germany Grace, my dearest one, The pressure is ...
( Category: World January 31,2019 )

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