Law : Court Rules

The Dirty Dozen takes on twelve Supreme Court. cases that changed American history—and yet are not. well known to most Americans. Starting in the New Deal era, the Court has. allowed breathtaking expansions of government power. that significantly reduced individual rights and abandoned. limited federal government as envisioned by the. founders. For example:. • Helvering v. Davis (1937) allowed the government. to take money from some and give it to. others, without any meaningful constraints. • Wickard v. Filburn (1942) let Congress use the. interstate commerce clause to regulate even the. most trivial activities—neither interstate nor. commerce. • Kelo v. City of New London (2005) declared that. the government can seize private property and. transfer it to another private owner. Levy and Mellor untangle complex Court opinions. to explain how The Dirty Dozen harmed ordinary. Americans. They argue for a Supreme Court that will. enforce what the Constitution actually says about civil. liberties, property rights, racial preferences, gun ownership,. and many other controversial issues. more...

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Despite the fact that the case-law of the European Court of Justice on employment related issues has become increasingly erratic of late,there is no denying the centrality of the Court’s role in the development of EC employment law. Though concentration o more...

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Features chapters that offer an overview of expert witnessing, including a history of experts in trials and of the criminal justice process; the roles of the attorney, judge, and jury and how they may conflict with the professional culture of the expert; and, visual display of information such as demonstrative evidence, graphs, and data ink. more...

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The world-renowned civil and equal rights attorney, television personality, and women's rights advocate offers a memoir of hard-fought battles and hard-won lessons, in this testament to a life devoted to the rights of others. more...

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Describes landmark free speech decisions of the Supreme Court while highlighting the issues of language, rhetoric, and communication that underlie them. At the intersection of communication and First Amendment law reside two significant questions: What is the speech we ought to protect, and why should we protect it? The 20 scholars of legal communication whose essays are gathered in this volume propose various answers to these questions, but their essays share an abiding concern with a constitutional guarantee of free speech and its symbiotic relationship with communication practices. Free Speech on Trial fills a gap between textbooks that summarize First Amendment law and books that analyze case law and legal theory. These essays explore questions regarding the significance of unregulated speech in a marketplace of goods and ideas, the limits of offensive language and obscenity as expression, the power of symbols, and consequences of restraint prior to publication versus the subsequent punishment of sources. As one example, Craig Smith cites Buckley vs. Valeo to examine how the context of corruption in the 1974 elections shaped the Court's view of the constitutionality of campaign contributions and expenditures. Collectively, the essays in this volume suggest that the life of free speech law is communication. The contributors reveal how the Court's free speech opinions constitute discursive performances that fashion, deconstruct, and reformulate the contours and parameters of the Constitution's guarantee of free expression and that, ultimately, reconstitute our government, our culture, and our society. Richard A. Parker is Professor of Speech Communication at Northern Arizona University in Flagstaff. more...

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