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 is Allen Professor of Law at the School of Law, University of Richmond. His books include Suing the Press, Law of Defamation, Jerry Falwell v. Larry Flynt, Free Speech in an Open Society, Smolla and Nimmer on Freedom of Speech, and Federal Civil Rights Acts.

Product details

• Authors: Paul Barrett, Smolla, Rodney A. Smolla
• Assisted by: Rodney A Smolla (Editor), Rodney A. Smolla (Editor)
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 28.07.1995
• EAN: 9780822316657
• ISBN: 978-0-8223-1665-7
• No. of pages: 312
• Dimensions: 151 mm x 230 mm x 24 mm
• Weight: 526 g
• Series: Constitutional Conflicts; Constitutional Conflicts
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Business > General, dictionaries; Vereinigte Staaten von Amerika, USA, Zivilrecht, Privatrecht, allgemein