A Year in the Life of the Supreme Court

You don't have to be a lawyer or a Supreme Court junkie to enjoy this book: it is as good a description--for a general audience as well as a legally trained one--of the real people and cases that come before the Supreme Court as we have ever had. This book is a joy to read."--Floyd Abrams, Constitutional attorney

List of contents

Acknowledgment ix

1. Introduction, Personality and Process / Rodney A. Smolla 1

2. A Case of Old Age / Paul Barrett 31

3. The Defining Moments of Jayne Bray and Justice Blackmun / Lyle Denniston 61

4. A Search on the Street / Richard Carelli 99

5. The Intepreter and the Establishment Clause / Aaron Epstein 123

6. A Question of Innocence / Marcia Coyle 141

7. Hate Speech, Hate Crimes, and the First Amendment / David Savage 177

8. Civil Rights and Higher Education / Kay Kindred 205

9. A Claim of Sexual Harassment / Stephen Wermiel 231

10. The Supreme Court and the Cult of Secrecy / Tony Mauro 257

Appendix: Justices of the Supreme Court, 1992-93 281

Biographies of the Contributors 283

Table of Cases 287

Index 291

About the author

Rodney A. Smolla, ed.

Product details

• Authors: Paul Barrett, Smolla
• Assisted by: Rodney A Smolla (Editor), Rodney A. Smolla (Editor)
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 28.07.1995
• EAN: 9780822316534
• ISBN: 978-0-8223-1653-4
• No. of pages: 312
• Weight: 771 g
• Series: Constitutional Conflicts; Constitutional Conflicts
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Business > General, dictionaries; Vereinigte Staaten von Amerika, USA, Zivilrecht, Privatrecht, allgemein