Research Catalog

Title

Section 1983, sword and shield : civil rights violations--the liability of urban, state, and local government / [edited by] Robert H. Freilich, Richard G. Carlisle.

Publication

[Chicago, Ill.] : Section of Urban, State and Local Government Law, American Bar Association, c1983.

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Additional Authors

• Carlisle, Richard G.
• Freilich, Robert H.

Description

xix, 478 p. ; 23 cm.

Summary

"The articles of this book have been reproduced from the original volumes of the Urban lawyer"--P. v.

Uniform Title

Urban lawyer.

Alternative Title

• Sword & shield
• Sword and shield.

Subject

• Civil rights > United States
• Government liability > United States
• State action (Civil rights) > United States
• Tort liability of municipal corporations > United States

Note

• "The articles of this book have been reproduced from the original volumes of the Urban lawyer"--P. v.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Introduction: Section 1983 : the preeminent issue : a species of tort or statutory liability / Richard G. Carlisle -- The symposium articles and six major issues of Section 1983 / James W. Jeans III -- Comment: Municipal liability under the Ku Klux Klan Act of 1871 : an historical perspective / Jamie Kathryn Lansford -- Excerpt from 1978-79 Annual review of local government law : undermining municipal and state initiative in an era of crisis and uncertainty / Robert H. Freilich, Joy Rushing and Douglas F. Noland -- Section 1983 and municipal liability : selected issues two years after Monell v. Department of Social Services / Bruce M. Kramer -- Owen v. City of Independence : toward constructing a model for municipal liability after Monell / Robert G. Carlisle -- The prima facie Section 1983 case / John Mahoney -- The next thirty years of civil rights litigation / Robert E. Manley -- Federal grants and the new statutory tort : state and local officials beware! / Richard B. Cappalli -- Solving the "taking" equation : making the whole equal the sum of its parts / Robert H. Freilich -- Inverse condemnation under section 1983 / Robert E. Manley -- Use of the civil rights acts to recover money damages for the overregulation of land / Kenneth B. Bley -- Personal liability under federal law : major developments since Monell / J. Devereux Weeks -- The threat of personal liability under the Federal Civil Rights Act : does it interfere with the performance of state and local government? / Martin J. Jaron, Jr. -- Section 1983 defenses / Joy Rushing and Lynne Bratcher -- The evolution of Section 1983 : verdict in on liability but jury out on remedy / Richard G. Carlisle -- The Civil Rights Attorneys' Fees Awards Act of 1976 / John W. Witt -- The impact of Section 1983 after Monell on municipal policy formulation and implementation / Anatolij Kushnir -- Municipal liability after Owen v. City of Independence and Maine v. Thiboutot / Kathryn Pruessner Peters

ISBN

0897071107 (pbk.)

LCCN

^^^83071848^

OCLC

10035186

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library