Legal History
mobi |eng | 2008-09-03 | Author:Don E. Fehrenbacher

There are still other features of Nelson's opinion that betray his proslavery bias. Responding to the assertion that earlier decisions of the Missouri supreme court lent consistent support to Dred ...
( Category: Constitutional Law October 4,2017 )
epub |eng | 2010-01-01 | Author:Deborah E Lipstadt [Lipstadt, Deborah E]

After Servatius concluded his examination came the long-awaited confrontation—“the battle of wits”—which the spectators who packed the courtroom had been anticipating: Hausner’s cross-examination. The exchange—described by one observer as a ...
( Category: World October 2,2017 )
mobi |eng | 2009-06-25 | Author:Burns, James Macgregor [Burns, James Macgregor]

IT WAS THIS conservative, cautious Supreme Court that confronted an egalitarian revolution sweeping across much of the country, spearheaded by the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, whose ...
( Category: Legal Theory & Systems October 2,2017 )
epub |eng | 2016-09-29 | Author:Philip Hoare

* Billing’s London address was close by; he lived at 3 Essex Court, The Temple, EC4. * Rosebery succeeded Gladstone as Prime Minister in 1894. The Marquess of Queensberry suspected ...
( Category: Historical September 29,2017 )
epub |eng | 2012-01-09 | Author:J. A. Rock [Rock, J. A.]

Chapter Thirteen The next couple of days were rough. Aiden was moody and irritable, snapping at Keaton whenever Keaton tried to make conversation. He couldn’t sleep and threw up everything ...
( Category: Architecture September 28,2017 )
epub |eng | 2010-12-29 | Author:H.L. Mencken [Mencken, H.L.]

* Popular comedy duo, Lew Fields and Joe Weber. XIII Tennessee in the Frying Pan From The Baltimore Evening Sun, July 20, 1925 I That the rising town of Dayton, ...
( Category: Americas September 27,2017 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2015-09-25 | Author:Terrence Hake

14 BRANCHING OUT Summer 1981 JUDGE JOHN DEVINE One of the hardest aspects of my undercover work was timing. I had to find a spot in the Traffic Court Building ...
( Category: Professionals & Academics September 25,2017 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2010-05-21 | Author:Alex Heard [Heard, Alex]

The Smith Act trial started in January 1949, minus one defendant—William Z. Foster, whose case was separated because he was ill. In his opening statement, U.S. attorney John F. X. ...
( Category: Americas September 19,2017 )
epub |eng | 2012-08-12 | Author:Roland, Paul [Roland, Paul]

Gruesome Exhibits On 13 December Thomas Dodd wheeled in a small table covered in a white sheet and asked for it to be introduced into evidence as Exhibit 253. After ...
( Category: Criminal Law September 19,2017 )
epub, azw3 |eng | 2004-09-17 | Author:Kevin Boyle

As soon as he was back at his desk Monday morning, September 21, White had renewed his offensive against the colored lawyers. The safety of distance gave his efforts a ...
( Category: Social Sciences September 17,2017 )
epub |eng | 2013-09-17 | Author:Jill Norgren

7 Not Everyone Is Bold Mary Hall and Catharine Waugh McCulloch in Conversation Petticoats instead of breeches. … Brains and mentality are [often] measured by the formation of the wearing ...
( Category: World September 17,2017 )
epub |eng | 2015-02-18 | Author:Ginny Gilder

10 My Yale racing career was over. My four years of eligibility had expired, even though I had one more term of college to complete. I no longer had the ...
( Category: Memoirs September 15,2017 )
epub |eng | 2012-11-08 | Author:Marcus Rediker [Rediker, Marcus]

This radical statement makes clear that not all abolitionists worried about the popular depictions of rebellion; some applauded them. Still, those conducting the defense campaign, who were uncomfortable with depictions ...
( Category: Sociology September 10,2017 )
mobi |eng | 2004-02-05 | Author:Klarman, Michael J. [Klarman, Michael J.]

In 1954, the Court played a vanguard role in school desegregation. Half of the nation supported Brown from the day it was decided, but it was the justices who had ...
( Category: Rules & Procedures September 5,2017 )
mobi |eng | 2001-03-01 | Author:James T. Patterson

Most top federal officials, however, remained committed in the late 1960s to desegregation of the schools. This was a high tide of expectations, especially among the rapidly expanding officialdom of ...
( Category: Americas September 5,2017 )