Record details

• ISBN: 1608717445
• ISBN: 9781608717446
• Physical Description: xvii, 668 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
• Edition: 5th edition
• Publisher: Thousand Oaks, Calif. : CQ Press, [2012]
• Copyright: ©2012

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Machine generated contents note: A.Abortion -- Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts -- Affirmative Action -- Aliens -- Alito, Samuel A., Jr. -- Amending Process -- American Bar Association -- Amicus Curiae -- Antitrust -- Appeal -- Appointment and Removal Power -- Arguments -- Arms, Right to Bear -- Arrests -- Assembly, Freedom of -- Assigning Opinions -- Association, Freedom of -- Attainder, Bill of -- Attorney General -- B.Background of Justices -- Bail -- Baker v. Carr -- Baldwin, Henry -- Barbour, Philip P. -- Bar of the Supreme Court -- Bill of Rights -- Black, Hugo L. -- Blackmun, Harry A. -- Blair, John, Jr. -- Blatchford, Samuel -- Bradley, Joseph P. -- Brandeis, Louis D. -- Brennan, William J., Jr. -- Brewer, David J. -- Breyer, Stephen G. -- Brief -- Brown, Henry B. -- Brown v. Board of Education -- Burger, Warren E. -- Burton, Harold H. -- Bush v. Gore -- Busing -- Butler, Pierce -- Byrnes, James F. -- C.Calhoun, John C. -- Campaigns and Elections -- Campbell, John A. -- Capital Punishment -- Cardozo, Benjamin N. -- Case Law -- Case or Controversy Rule -- Catron, John -- Certiorari -- Chase, Salmon P. -- Chase, Samuel -- Chief Justice -- Child Labor -- Circuit Riding -- Citizenship -- Civil Liberties -- Civil Rights -- Civil War Amendments -- Clark, Tom C. -- Clarke, John H. -- Class Action -- Clay, Henry -- Clerk of the Court -- Clerks -- Clifford, Nathan -- Comity -- Commerce Power -- Common Law -- Communism -- Concurring Opinions -- Conferences -- Confessions -- Confirmation Process -- Congress and the Court -- Congressional Immunity -- Constitutional Law -- Contempt of Court -- Contract Clause -- Cost of Supreme Court -- Counsel, Right to Legal -- Counselor to the Chief Justice -- Courts, Lower -- Courts, Powers of -- Criminal Law and Procedure -- Cruel and Unusual Punishment -- Curator's Office -- Currency Powers -- Curtis, Benjamin R. -- Cushing, William -- D.Daniel, Peter V. -- Davis, David -- Davis, John W. -- Day, William R. -- Decision Days -- De Facto, De Jure -- Defendant -- Disability Rights -- Discrimination -- Dissenting Opinions -- Diversity Jurisdiction -- Docket -- Double Jeopardy -- Douglas, William O. -- Due Process -- Duvall, Gabriel -- E.Education and the Court -- Elections and the Court -- Electronic Surveillance -- Ellsworth, Oliver -- Equal Protection -- Exclusionary Rule -- Executive Privilege and Immunity -- Ex Parte -- Ex Post Facto -- Extrajudicial Activities -- F.Federalism -- Federal Judicial Center -- Felony -- Field, Stephen J. -- Flag Salute Cases -- Foreign Affairs -- Fortas, Abe -- Frankfurter, Felix -- Fuller, Melville W. -- G.Garland, Augustus H. -- Gay Rights -- Gibbons v. Ogden -- Gideon v. Wainwright -- Ginsburg, Ruth Bader -- Goldberg, Arthur J. -- Grand Jury -- Gray, Horace -- Grier, Robert C. -- H.Habeas Corpus -- Hamilton, Alexander -- Harlan, John Marshall (1833-1911) -- Harlan, John Marshall (1899-1971) -- Historical Society, Supreme Court -- Holmes, Oliver Wendell, Jr. -- Housing the Court -- Hughes, Charles Evans -- Hunt, Ward -- I.Impeachment -- Impeachment of Justices -- Income Tax -- Incorporation Doctrine -- Indictment -- In Forma Pauperis -- Injunction -- Intellectual Property -- International Law -- Internet -- Internment Cases -- Iredell, James -- J.Jackson, Andrew -- Jackson, Howell E. -- Jackson, Robert H. -- Jay, John -- Jefferson, Thomas -- Job Discrimination -- Johnson, Thomas -- Johnson, William -- Judgment of the Court -- Judicial Activism -- Judicial Conference of the United States -- Judicial Restraint -- Judicial Review -- Juries -- Jurisdiction -- Justiciability -- K.Kagan, Elena -- Kennedy, Anthony M. -- L.Lamar, Joseph R. -- Lamar, Lucius Q. C. -- Legal Office of the Court -- Legal System in America -- Legal Tender Cases -- Legislative Veto -- Libel -- Library of the Court -- Lincoln, Abraham -- Livingston, H. Brockholst -- Loyalty Oaths -- Lurton, Horace H. -- M.Majority Opinion -- Mandamus -- Mandatory Jurisdiction -- Marbury v. Madis on -- Marshal of the Court -- Marshall, John -- Marshall, Thurgood -- Matthews, Stanley -- McCulloch v. Maryland -- McKenna, Joseph -- McKinley, John -- McLean, John -- McReynolds, James C. -- Media and the Court -- Merits, On the -- Miller, Samuel F. -- Minton, Sherman -- Miranda v. Arizona -- Misdemeanor -- Moody, William H. -- Moore, Alfred -- Mootness -- Murphy, Frank -- N.Nelson, Samuel -- New York Times Co. v. Sullivan -- Nixon, Richard -- Nomination to the Court -- O.Oaths of Office -- Obiter Dictum -- Obscenity and Indecency -- O'Connor, Sandra Day -- Official Immunity -- Open Housing -- Operations of the Court -- Opinions -- Original Intent -- Original Jurisdiction -- P.Pardons -- Parochial Schools, Aid to -- Paterson, William -- Pay and Perquisites -- Peckham, Rufus W. -- Pentagon Papers Case -- Per Curiam Opinion -- Personal Papers -- Petition, Right of -- Petitioner -- Pitney, Mahlon -- Plaintiff -- Plea Bargaining -- Plessy v. Ferguson -- Plurality Opinion -- Police Power -- Political Question -- Politics and the Court -- Powell, Lewis E., Jr. -- Precedent -- Preemption -- The President and the Court -- Press, Freedom of -- Prima Facie -- Privacy, Right of -- Probable Cause -- Property Rights -- Public Accommodations -- Public Information Office -- Public Opinion and the Court -- R.Ratings of Justices -- Reagan, Ronald -- Reapportionment and Redistricting -- Reed, Stanley F. -- Rehnquist, William H. -- Religion, Freedom of -- Remand -- Removal of Cases -- Reporter of Decisions -- Resignation -- Respondent -- Retirement -- Reversals of Earlier Rulings -- Reversals of Rulings by Constitutional Amendment -- Reversals of Rulings by Legislation -- Ripeness -- Roberts, John G., Jr. -- Roberts, Owen J. -- Roe v. Wade -- Roosevelt, Franklin D. -- Rutledge, John -- Rutledge, Wiley B. -- S.Sanford, Edward T. -- Scalia, Antonin -- Schedule of Arguments and Conferences -- School Desegregation -- School Prayer -- Scottsboro Cases -- Scott v. Sandford -- Seal of the Supreme Court -- Search and Seizure -- Sedition Laws -- Segregation -- Selective Service Rulings -- Self-Incrimination -- Seniority -- Sentencing Guidelines -- Separation of Powers -- Severability -- Sex Discrimination -- Shiras, George, Jr. -- Size of the Court -- Slaughterhouse Cases -- Slavery and the Court -- Solicitor General -- Sotomayor, Sonia -- Souter, David H. -- Speech, Commercial -- Speech, Freedom of -- Speedy Trial, Right to -- Spending Powers -- Standing to Sue -- Stare Decisis -- States and the Court -- Stevens, John Paul -- Stewart, Potter -- Stone, Harlan Fiske -- Story, Joseph -- Strict Construction -- Strong, William -- Subpoena -- Summary Judgment -- Supremacy Clause -- Supreme Court Building -- Sutherland, George -- Swayne, Noah H. -- T.Taft, William Howard -- Taney, Roger B. -- Taxing Power -- Temporary Restraining Order -- Term Limits -- Term of the Court -- Test Case -- Thomas, Clarence -- Thompson, Smith -- Three-Judge Court -- Todd, Thomas -- Tort Law -- Traditions of the Court -- Travel, Right to -- Treaty Power -- Trials -- Trimble, Robert -- U.Unconstitutional Statutes -- United States Reports -- V.Vacancy -- Vacate -- Van Devanter, Willis -- Veto Power -- Vinson, Frederick M. -- Voting Rights -- W.Waite, Morrison R. -- War Powers -- Warren, Earl -- Washington, Bushrod -- Wayne, James M. -- Webster, Daniel -- White, Byron R. -- White, Edward D. -- Whittaker, Charles E. -- Wilson, James -- Woodbury, Levi -- Woods, William B. -- Workload of the Court -- Writing Opinions -- Y.Youngstown Sheet and Tube Co. v. Sawyer -- Z.Zoning -- REFERENCE MATERIAL -- Historic Milestones of the Court -- Supreme Court Nominations, 1789-2011 -- Seat Chart of the Justices -- Constitution of the United States -- Online Sources of Decisions.

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