The Litigants

Author : Kimberly M. Welch
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 323 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2018-01-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9798890853899

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Black Litigants in the Antebellum American South by Kimberly M. Welch Pdf

In the antebellum Natchez district, in the heart of slave country, black people sued white people in all-white courtrooms. They sued to enforce the terms of their contracts, recover unpaid debts, recuperate back wages, and claim damages for assault. They sued in conflicts over property and personal status. And they often won. Based on new research conducted in courthouse basements and storage sheds in rural Mississippi and Louisiana, Kimberly Welch draws on over 1,000 examples of free and enslaved black litigants who used the courts to protect their interests and reconfigure their place in a tense society. To understand their success, Welch argues that we must understand the language that they used--the language of property, in particular--to make their claims recognizable and persuasive to others and to link their status as owner to the ideal of a free, autonomous citizen. In telling their stories, Welch reveals a previously unknown world of black legal activity, one that is consequential for understanding the long history of race, rights, and civic inclusion in America.

Author : Jean Racine
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 50 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1882
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UOM:39015033480883

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The Litigants by Jean Racine Pdf

Author : Jean Racine
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 37 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2024-04-08
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783385404052

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The Litigants. A Comedy by Jean Racine Pdf

Reprint of the original, first published in 1882.

Author : Barbara M. Yarnold
Publisher : Nova Publishers
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Law
ISBN : 156072756X

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Religious Wars in the Courts: Who were the litigants in the U.S. courts, religious freedoms cases, 1970-1990 by Barbara M. Yarnold Pdf

Author : Julie MacFarlane
Publisher : UBC Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2008-05-20
Category : Law
ISBN : 0774858192

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The New Lawyer by Julie MacFarlane Pdf

Today's justice system and the legal profession have rendered the "lawyer-warrior" notion outdated, shifting toward conflict resolution rather than protracted litigation. The new lawyer's skills go beyond court battles to encompass negotiation, mediation, collaborative practice, and restorative justice. In The New Lawyer, Julie Macfarlane explores the evolving role of practitioners, articulating legal and ethical complexities in a variety of contexts. The result is a thought-provoking exploration of the increasing impact of alternative strategies on the lawyer-client relationship, as well as on the legal system itself.

Author : Jean Racine
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2015-07-10
Category : Drama
ISBN : 1331094550

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The Litigants (Classic Reprint) by Jean Racine Pdf

Excerpt from The Litigants About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Author : John C. Coffee
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : History
ISBN : 9780674736795

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Entrepreneurial Litigation by John C. Coffee Pdf

In class actions, attorneys effectively hire clients rather than act as their agent. Lawyer-financed, lawyer-controlled, and lawyer-settled, this entrepreneurial litigation invites lawyers to act in their own interest. John Coffee’s goal is to save class action, not discard it, and to make private enforcement of law more democratically accountable.

Author : Mark M. Orkin
Publisher : Canada Law Book
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Costs (Law)
ISBN : 0888040504

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The Law of Costs by Mark M. Orkin Pdf

Author : Louis Nizer
Publisher : Pickle Partners Publishing
Page : 542 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2016-11-11
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781787202641

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My Life in Court by Louis Nizer Pdf

In this electrifying bestseller, the shrewd and voluble trial lawyer Louis Nizer, who made a long career of representing famous people in famous cases, recounts some of his significant civil and criminal cases. Nizer rose to national fame with his real-life accounts of tension-filled courtrooms and the fervor of the advocate, and “My Life in Court” proved to be no exception: it rose to the top of the Times’s best-seller list on its publication in 1961 and logged 72 weeks as a sales leader. The book is an in-depth collection of some of Mr. Nizer’s court case success stories, including his client Quentin Reynolds’ famous libel action against the columnist Westbrook Pegler, which would also become the basis of the 1963 Broadway play “A Case of Libel.” Praised by critics as “entertaining and philosophically instructive, an unusual combination,” Nizer’s movie-like plots of real-life courtroom drama will keep you captivated until the very last page.

Author : Jean Racine
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 49 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1420949101

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The Litigants by Jean Racine Pdf

Author : Ian Brodie
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 183 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2012-02-01
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780791488966

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Friends of the Court by Ian Brodie Pdf

In the first book-length study of interest group litigation in Canada, Friends of the Court traces the Canadian Supreme Court's ever-changing relationship with interest groups since the 1970s. After explaining how the Court was pressured to welcome more interest groups in the late 1980s, Brodie introduces a new theory of political status describing how the Court privileges certain groups over others. By uncovering the role of the state in encouraging and facilitating litigation, this book challenges the idea that interest group litigation in Canada is a grassroots phenomenon.

Author : Vanessa A. Baird
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2008-08-13
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780813930442

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Answering the Call of the Court by Vanessa A. Baird Pdf

The U.S. Supreme Court is the quintessential example of a court that expanded its agenda into policy areas that were once reserved for legislatures. Yet scholars know very little about what causes attention to various policy areas to ebb and flow on the Supreme Court’s agenda. Vanessa A. Baird’s Answering the Call of the Court: How Justices and Litigants Set the Supreme Court Agenda represents the first scholarly attempt to connect justices’ priorities, litigants’ strategies, and aggregate policy outputs of the U.S. Supreme Court. Most previous studies on the Supreme Court’s agenda examine case selection, but Baird demonstrates that the agenda-setting process begins long before justices choose which cases they will hear. When justices signal their interest in a particular policy area, litigants respond by sponsoring well-crafted cases in those policy areas. Approximately four to five years later, the Supreme Court’s agenda in those areas expands, with cases that are comparatively more politically important and divisive than other cases the Court hears. From issues of discrimination and free expression to welfare policy, from immigration to economic regulation, strategic supporters of litigation pay attention to the goals of Supreme Court justices and bring cases they can use to achieve those goals. Since policy making in courts is iterative, multiple well-crafted cases are needed for courts to make comprehensive policy. Baird argues that judicial policy-making power depends on the actions of policy entrepreneurs or other litigants who systematically respond to the priorities and preferences of Supreme Court justices.

Author : Robert J. Sharpe,Patricia I. McMahon
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2017-06-22
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781487516932

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The Persons Case by Robert J. Sharpe,Patricia I. McMahon Pdf

On 18 October 1929, John Sankey, England's reform-minded Lord Chancellor, ruled in the Persons case that women were eligible for appointment to Canada's Senate. Initiated by Edmonton judge Emily Murphy and four other activist women, the Persons case challenged the exclusion of women from Canada's upper house and the idea that the meaning of the constitution could not change with time. The Persons Case considers the case in its political and social context and examines the lives of the key players: Emily Murphy, Nellie McClung, and the other members of the "famous five," the politicians who opposed the appointment of women, the lawyers who argued the case, and the judges who decided it. Robert J. Sharpe and Patricia I. McMahon examine the Persons case as a pivotal moment in the struggle for women's rights and as one of the most important constitutional decisions in Canadian history. Lord Sankey's decision overruled the Supreme Court of Canada's judgment that the courts could not depart from the original intent of the framers of Canada's constitution in 1867. Describing the constitution as a "living tree," the decision led to a reassessment of the nature of the constitution itself. After the Persons case, it could no longer be viewed as fixed and unalterable, but had to be treated as a document that, in the words of Sankey, was in "a continuous process of evolution." The Persons Case is a comprehensive study of this important event, examining the case itself, the ruling of the Privy Council, and the profound affect that it had on women's rights and the constitutional history of Canada.

Author : American Bar Association. House of Delegates,Center for Professional Responsibility (American Bar Association)
Publisher : American Bar Association
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Law
ISBN : 1590318730

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Model Rules of Professional Conduct by American Bar Association. House of Delegates,Center for Professional Responsibility (American Bar Association) Pdf

The Model Rules of Professional Conduct provides an up-to-date resource for information on legal ethics. Federal, state and local courts in all jurisdictions look to the Rules for guidance in solving lawyer malpractice cases, disciplinary actions, disqualification issues, sanctions questions and much more. In this volume, black-letter Rules of Professional Conduct are followed by numbered Comments that explain each Rule's purpose and provide suggestions for its practical application. The Rules will help you identify proper conduct in a variety of given situations, review those instances where discretionary action is possible, and define the nature of the relationship between you and your clients, colleagues and the courts.

Author : Joanne Begiato,Michael Lobban,Adrian Green
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2019-06-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108491723

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Law, Lawyers and Litigants in Early Modern England by Joanne Begiato,Michael Lobban,Adrian Green Pdf

Explores the impact of legal ideas and legal consciousness on early modern English society and culture.