Research Catalog

The public debate over controversial Supreme Court decisions / edited by Melvin I. Urofsky.

Title
The public debate over controversial Supreme Court decisions / edited by Melvin I. Urofsky.
Publication
Washington, D.C. : CQ Press, c2006.

Items in the Library & Off-site

Filter by

1 Item

StatusFormatAccessCall NumberItem Location
TextRequest in advance KF4550.Z9 P83 2006Off-site

Holdings

Details

Additional Authors
Urofsky, Melvin I.
Description
xviii, 481 p. : ill.; 26 cm.
Summary
"Focuses on forty controversial Supreme Court cases. Provides summary of each case, its importance, and the reason for its controversial nature as well as selections from primary sources that represent the public response to the case"--Provided by publisher.
Subject
  • United States. Supreme Court > Popular works
  • Constitutional law > United States > Popular works
  • Judgments > United States > Popular works
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 449-450) and indexes.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
  • McCulloch v. Maryland (1819) / Mark R. Killenbeck -- The Cherokee cases (1831, 1832) / Tim Alan Garrison - - Dred Scott v. Sandford (1857) / Paul Finkelman.-- Ex parte Milligan (1866) / Brooks Simpson -- Bradwell v. Illinois (1873) / Christine Yantis Hargrove -- Reynolds v. United States (1879) / Sarah Barringer Gordon -- The Income tax cases (1895) / Robert Stanley -- In re Debs (1895) / David Ray Papke. -- Plessy v. Ferguson (1896) / Ellen Holmes Pearson -- Insular cases (1901) / Bartholomew H. Sparrow -- Lochner v. New York (1905) / Paul Kens -- Muller v. Oregon (1908) / Nancy Woloch -- Hammer v. Dagenhart (1918) / James Z. Schwartz -- Adkins v. Children's Hospital (1923) / Vivien Hart -- Schechter Poultry Corp. v. United States and United States v. Butler (1935, 1936) / Lyle Denniston -- Minersville School District v. Gobitis (1940) / Shawn Francis Peters.-- Ex parte Quirin (1942) / Louis Fisher. --
  • Japanese internment cases (1943, 1944) / Melvin I. Urofsky -- Dennis v. United States (1951) / Arthur J. Sabin -- Rosenberg v. United States (1953) / Harvey Rishikof -- Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas (1954) / John W. Lemza -- Mapp v. Ohio (1961) / Carolyn Long -- Engel v. Vitale (1962) / Bruce J. Dierenfield -- Reynolds v. Sims (1964) / Peter G. Renstrom -- Griswold v. Connecticut (1965) / John W. Johnson -- Miranda v. Arizona (1966) / B. Keith Crew -- Loving v. Virginia (1967) / Peter Wallenstein and Erin K. Mooney -- Tinker v. Des Moines Independent Community School Distroct (1969) / John W. Johnson -- Wisconsin v. Yoder (1972) / Shawn Francis Peters. -- Flood v. Kuhn (1972) / Gregg Ivers -- Furman v. Georgia (1972) / B. Keith Crew. -- Roe v. Wade (1973) / James Z. Schwartz. -- Regents of the University of Californa v. Bakke (1978) / Howard Ball -- Wallace v. Jaffree (1985)
  • Jason E. Whitehead. -- Texas v. Johnson (1989) / Robert Justin Goldstein. -- Employment Division, Department of Human Resources of Oregon v. Smith (1990) / Carolyn Long. -- Church of the Lukumi Babalu Aye v. City of Hialeah (1993) / David M. O'Brien.-- Bush v. Gore (2000) / Stephen J. Wermiel -- Lawrence v. Texas / Peter G. Renstrom -- McConnell v. Federal Election Commission (2003) / Melvin I. Urofsky -- Appendixes: Constitution of the Unided States -- Succession chart of the Supreme Court seats -- Thumbnail sketch of the Supreme Court's history -- Online sources of decisions -- How to read a court citation -- Glossary of common legal terms.
ISBN
1568029373 (alk. paper)
LCCN
^^2005031118
OCLC
62281453
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library