The American Courts

Author : DANIEL JOHN. MITCHELL MEADOR (GREGORY.),Gregory Mitchell
Publisher : West Academic Publishing
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2020-10-22
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1642421510

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American Courts by DANIEL JOHN. MITCHELL MEADOR (GREGORY.),Gregory Mitchell Pdf

This book describes the structure and functions of state and federal judicial systems within the United States. The primary mission of the book is to introduce beginning law students and lawyers from other countries to the basics of the federal and state court systems of the United States, but sufficient detail is provided to make the book a handy reference source for anyone doing research on American courts. The appendices present detailed information about the judicial personnel and different structures of the federal and state courts. This new edition reflects the changes in case management procedures, court personnel, and, in some instances, state court structure that have been made over the past decade to deal with changes in the types and numbers of cases being filed with the courts.

Author : David W. Neubauer,Henry F. Fradella,Professor and Chair of Criminal Justice Henry F Fradella
Publisher : Wadsworth Publishing Company
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Criminal courts
ISBN : 0538738294

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America's Courts and the Criminal Justice System by David W. Neubauer,Henry F. Fradella,Professor and Chair of Criminal Justice Henry F Fradella Pdf

Widely used and widely respected, "America's Courts and the Criminal Justice System", Tenth Edition, offers a comprehensive explanation of the courts and the criminal justice system, presented in a streamlined, straightforward manner that appeals to instructors and students alike. Neubauer and Fradella's crisp, clear writing style, characterized by careful chunking of material into small sections within chapters, ensures that readers gain a firm handle on the material, while the text's innovative "courtroom workhouse" model, which focuses on the interrelationships among the judge, prosecutor, and defense attorney, brings the courtroom to life. This popular text is known for the way it gives students a true glimpse what it is like to work within the American criminal justice system, and the tenth edition is no exception. This modern edition offers coverage that reflects recent policy shaping and headline-making developments as well as incorporation of additional student-learning and review tools.

Author : Gregory Mitchell (Law teacher),David E. Klein
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Courts
ISBN : 1634598792

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American Courts Explained by Gregory Mitchell (Law teacher),David E. Klein Pdf

Softbound - New, softbound print book.

Author : Marcelle Boren
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 146 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2016-04-27
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0692676643

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Disorder in the American Courts by Marcelle Boren Pdf

The quotes contained in this book are things real people actually said, word for word, under oath in legal court proceedings and are forever immortalized in the public record. This fully illustrated, cartoon panel book brings these humorous quotes to life! It is true that lawyers and witnesses say the darndest things! Please enjoy a good laugh at their expense.

Author : William Miller
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2015-08-20
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781317350156

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A Primer on American Courts by William Miller Pdf

This brief, accessible, and inexpensive supplement on American courts and their functions provides undergraduate, or first-year law students, with an understanding of the key substantive and procedural concepts that they need to know to study the law or the judicial process. Recognizing that there are many substantive and procedural concepts about American courts that students must first grasp in order to study the law or the judicial process, this brief text answers important questions about justiciability, standing, jurisdiction, and judicial power. With a stronger historical context, this text is a perfect complement to a text on Constitutional Law, Judicial Process, or a legal casebook, and will help students master the legal vocabulary with which they are confronted.

Author : Jeffrey Jenkins
Publisher : Jones & Bartlett Learning
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2011-04-21
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780763755287

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The American Courts by Jeffrey Jenkins Pdf

Courtrooms are often lively places, and what occurs in them has a profound impact on the functioning of our democracy. The American Courts – A Procedural Approach offers readers a thorough understanding of the United States court system by exploring the procedural aspects of the law. The rules of both criminal and civil procedure, how they are applied, and their influence on decision-making in the courts are thoroughly examined. This text is ideal for undergraduate and introductory graduate criminal justice, legal studies, and government programs.

Author : Sandra F. Sperino,Suja A. Thomas
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2017-05-01
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780190278403

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Unequal by Sandra F. Sperino,Suja A. Thomas Pdf

It is no secret that since the 1980s, American workers have lost power vis-à-vis employers through the well-chronicled steep decline in private sector unionization. American workers have also lost power in other ways. Those alleging employment discrimination have fared increasingly poorly in the courts. In recent years, judges have dismissed scores of cases in which workers presented evidence that supervisors referred to them using racial or gender slurs. In one federal district court, judges dismissed more than 80 percent of the race discrimination cases filed over a year. And when juries return verdicts in favor of employees, judges often second guess those verdicts, finding ways to nullify the jury's verdict and rule in favor of the employer. Most Americans assume that that an employee alleging workplace discrimination faces the same legal system as other litigants. After all, we do not usually think that legal rules vary depending upon the type of claim brought. The employment law scholars Sandra A. Sperino and Suja A. Thomas show in Unequal that our assumptions are wrong. Over the course of the last half century, employment discrimination claims have come to operate in a fundamentally different legal system than other claims. It is in many respects a parallel universe, one in which the legal system systematically favors employers over employees. A host of procedural, evidentiary, and substantive mechanisms serve as barriers for employees, making it extremely difficult for them to access the courts. Moreover, these mechanisms make it fairly easy for judges to dismiss a case prior to trial. Americans are unaware of how the system operates partly because they think that race and gender discrimination are in the process of fading away. But such discrimination still happens in the workplace, and workers now have little recourse to fight it legally. By tracing the modern history of employment discrimination, Sperino and Thomas provide an authoritative account of how our legal system evolved into an institution that is inherently biased against workers making rights claims.

Author : G. Larry Mays,Laura Woods Fidelie
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2016-01-19
Category : Criminal justice, Administration of
ISBN : 0190278897

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American Courts and the Judicial Process by G. Larry Mays,Laura Woods Fidelie Pdf

Featuring the insights of criminal justice scholars G. Larry Mays and Laura Woods Fidelie, American Courts and the Judicial Process, Second Edition, is ideal for undergraduate courts courses. It examines the many elements of the U.S. court system--its structures, functions, and key actors--addressing the major problems facing the system and considering potential solutions. This unique text also provides students with a practical perspective, discussing the contrast between the law and the rules as they are written and the ways in which they actually play out in the real world. The book is enhanced by "In the News" boxes that discuss contemporary events and "World View" boxes covering international courts and legal systems.

Author : Daniel John Meador
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Law
ISBN : UCAL:B4590871

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American Courts by Daniel John Meador Pdf

Author : Casey Welch,John Randolph Fuller
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 615 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2013-04-05
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781455728114

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American Criminal Courts by Casey Welch,John Randolph Fuller Pdf

American Criminal Courts: Legal Process and Social Context provides a complete picture of both the theory and day-to-day reality of criminal courts in the United States. The book begins by exploring how democratic processes affect criminal law, the documents that define law, the organizational structure of courts at the federal and state levels, the overlapping authority of the appeals process, and the effect of legal processes such as precedent, jurisdiction, and the underlying philosophies of various types of courts. In practice, criminal courts are staffed by people who represent different perspectives, occupational pressures, and organizational goals. Thus, this book includes chapters on actors in the traditional courtroom workgroup (judges, prosecutors, and defense attorneys, etc.) as well as those outside the court who seek to influence it, including advocacy groups, the media, and politicians. It is the interplay between the court's legal processes and the social actors in the courtroom that makes the application of criminal law fascinating. By focusing on the tension between the law and the actors inside of it, American Criminal Courts: Legal Process and Social Context demonstrates how the courts are a product of "law in action" and presents content in a way that enables you to understand not only the "how" of the U.S. criminal court system, but also the "why." Clearly explains both the principles underlying the development of criminal law and the practical reality of the court system in action A complete picture of the criminal justice continuum, including prosecution, defense, judges, juries, sentencing, and pre-trial and appeals processes Feature boxes look at how courts are portrayed in the media; identify landmark due-process cases; illustrate the pros and cons of the courts’ discretionary decision-making; examine procedures and the goals of justice; and highlight the various types of careers available within the criminal courts

Author : Aziz Z. Huq
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : LAW
ISBN : 9780197556818

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The Collapse of Constitutional Remedies by Aziz Z. Huq Pdf

"This book describes and explains the failure of the federal courts of the United States to act and to provide remedies to individuals whose constitutional rights have been violated by illegal state coercion and violence. This remedial vacuum must be understood in light of the original design and historical development of the federal courts. At its conception, the federal judiciary was assumed to be independent thanks to an apolitical appointment process, a limited supply of adequately trained lawyers (which would prevent cherry-picking), and the constraining effect of laws and constitutional provision. Each of these checks quickly failed. As a result, the early federal judicial system was highly dependent on Congress. Not until the last quarter of the nineteenth century did a robust federal judiciary start to emerge, and not until the first quarter of the twentieth century did it take anything like its present form. The book then charts how the pressure from Congress and the White House has continued to shape courts behaviour-first eliciting a mid-twentieth-century explosion in individual remedies, and then driving a five-decade long collapse. Judges themselves have not avidly resisted this decline, in part because of ideological reasons and in part out of institutional worries about a ballooning docket. Today, as a result of these trends, the courts are stingy with individual remedies, but aggressively enforce the so-called "structural" constitution of the separation of powers and federalism. This cocktail has highly regressive effects, and is in urgent need of reform"--

Author : Richard Neely
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1981-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0300029802

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How Courts Govern America by Richard Neely Pdf

Law and Political Science. A witty defense of judicial activism.--National Review. Must reading for any student of government.--Washington Monthly

Author : Frank B. Cross
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Law
ISBN : 0804757135

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Decision Making in the U.S. Courts of Appeals by Frank B. Cross Pdf

This book studies the decisions of the United States circuit courts and their grounding in law and judicial ideology.

Author : James L. Gibson,Gregory A. Caldeira
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 195 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2009-05-26
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781400830602

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Citizens, Courts, and Confirmations by James L. Gibson,Gregory A. Caldeira Pdf

In recent years the American public has witnessed several hard-fought battles over nominees to the U.S. Supreme Court. In these heated confirmation fights, candidates' legal and political philosophies have been subject to intense scrutiny and debate. Citizens, Courts, and Confirmations examines one such fight--over the nomination of Samuel Alito--to discover how and why people formed opinions about the nominee, and to determine how the confirmation process shaped perceptions of the Supreme Court's legitimacy. Drawing on a nationally representative survey, James Gibson and Gregory Caldeira use the Alito confirmation fight as a window into public attitudes about the nation's highest court. They find that Americans know far more about the Supreme Court than many realize, that the Court enjoys a great deal of legitimacy among the American people, that attitudes toward the Court as an institution generally do not suffer from partisan or ideological polarization, and that public knowledge enhances the legitimacy accorded the Court. Yet the authors demonstrate that partisan and ideological infighting that treats the Court as just another political institution undermines the considerable public support the institution currently enjoys, and that politicized confirmation battles pose a grave threat to the basic legitimacy of the Supreme Court.

Author : Johnny Dwyer
Publisher : Knopf
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781101946541

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The Districts by Johnny Dwyer Pdf

An unprecedented plunge into New York City's federal court system that gives us a revelatory picture of how our justice system, and the pursuit of justice, really works. A young Italian Mafioso helps get rid of a body in Queens. In Manhattan, a hedge fund portfolio manager misrepresents his company's assets to investors. At JFK International Airport, a college student returns from Jamaica with cocaine stuffed in the handle of her suitcase. These are just a few of the stories that come to life in this comprehensive look at the Southern District Court in Manhattan, and the Eastern District Court in Brooklyn--the two federal courts tasked with maintaining order in New York City. Johnny Dwyer takes us not just into the courtrooms but into the lives of those who enter through its doors: the judges and attorneys, prosecutors and defendants, winners and losers. He examines crimes we've read about in the papers or seen in movies and on television--organized crime, terrorism, drug trafficking, corruption, and white-collar crime--and weaves in the nuances that rarely make it into headlines. Brimming with detail and drama, The Districts illuminates the meaning of intent, of reasonable doubt, of deception, and--perhaps most important of all--of justice.