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Significant decisions of the Supreme Court, 1978-1979 term / Bruce E. Fein.
- Title
- Significant decisions of the Supreme Court, 1978-1979 term / Bruce E. Fein.
- Author
- Fein, Bruce E.
- Publication
- Washington, D.C. : American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research, ©1980.
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Details
- Additional Authors
- United States. Supreme Court.
- Description
- 199 pages; 23 cm.
- Summary
- Tenth in the American Enterprise Institute's continuing series this volume includes a penetrating consideration of the Burger Court's first ten years, as well as summaries and analyses of the outstanding decisions of the 1978-1979 term. Of particular interest are discussions of cases on freedom of speech and press, affirmative action and racial discrimination, rights of persons accused of crimes, rights of illegitimate children and federal regulation. A special feature of this volume is a cumulative index of all cases that have been summarized in the previous seven volumes of Significant Decisions of the Supreme Court, 1971-1978.
- Series Statement
- AEI studies ; 282
- Studies in legal policy
- Uniform Title
- AEI studies ; 282.
- Studies in legal policy.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- digests (legal documents)
- Law digests
- Digests
- Law digests.
- Répertoires de lois et de jurisprudence.
- Note
- With cumulative index of cases, 1971-1978.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- The jurisprudence of the Burger court -- The Burger court as policy maker -- Failure to champion broad constitutional or statutory principles -- Dominant themes in the Burger court's decisions -- Employment discrimination -- Government immunity -- School desegregation -- Abortion -- State taxation and regulation of business -- Federal regulation: antitrust, patents, securties, environment, and freedom of information.
- ISBN
- 0844733773
- 9780844733777
- 0844733873
- 9780844733876
- 0844733776
- OCLC
- 6833140
- SCSB-11268111
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library