Disorder In The American Courts

Author : Marcelle Boren
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780692676646
Total Pages : 146 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Disorder in the American Courts written by Marcelle Boren and published by . This book was released on 2016-04-27 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The quotes contained in this book are things real people actually said, word for word, under oath in legal court proceedings and are forever immortalized in the public record. This fully illustrated, cartoon panel book brings these humorous quotes to life! It is true that lawyers and witnesses say the darndest things! Please enjoy a good laugh at their expense.

Author : Ilya Shapiro
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1684510724
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Supreme Disorder written by Ilya Shapiro and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2020-09-22 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A must-read for anyone interested in the Supreme Court."—MIKE LEE, Republican senator from Utah Politics have always intruded on Supreme Court appointments. But although the Framers would recognize the way justices are nominated and confirmed today, something is different. Why have appointments to the high court become one of the most explosive features of our system of government? As Ilya Shapiro makes clear in Supreme Disorder, this problem is part of a larger phenomenon. As government has grown, its laws reaching even further into our lives, the courts that interpret those laws have become enormously powerful. If we fight over each new appointment as though everything were at stake, it’s because it is. When decades of constitutional corruption have left us subject to an all-powerful tribunal, passions are sure to flare on the infrequent occasions when the political system has an opportunity to shape it. And so we find the process of judicial appointments verging on dysfunction. Shapiro weighs the many proposals for reform, from the modest (term limits) to the radical (court-packing), but shows that there can be no quick fix for a judicial system suffering a crisis of legitimacy. And in the end, the only measure of the Court’s legitimacy that matters is the extent to which it maintains, or rebalances, our constitutional order.

Author : Marcelle Boren
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781630688394
Total Pages : 191 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Disorder in the American Courts written by Marcelle Boren and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Marcelle Boren
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780692274576
Total Pages : 206 pages
Book Rating : 4.7X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Disorder in the American Courts written by Marcelle Boren and published by . This book was released on 2014-09-02 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The quotes contained in this book are things real people actually said, word for word, under oath in legal court proceedings and are forever immortalized in the public record. While trying to be completely serious, the words escaping their mouths are anything but. It is true that lawyers and witnesses say the darndest things. Please enjoy a good laugh at their expense.

Author : Charles M. Sevilla
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393349543
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Law and Disorder: Absurdly Funny Moments from the Courts written by Charles M. Sevilla and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2014-08-04 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More hilarious, unbelievable-but-true stories from our nation’s courts, from the author of Disorder in the Court and Disorderly Conduct. Charles M. Sevilla finds comic gems in court transcripts—and now brings readers a delightful, all-new collection. Starting with a chapter on the defendants (one of whom, when asked his marital status, replies after a long pause, "Adequate") and following with sections on lawyers, experts, witnesses, evidence, and even one called "Malaprops" (DA: The status of the boat has no relevance to this case at all. This is a total fishing expedition). Stories from Sevilla's previous books have become viral Internet sensations, priming readers for more legal disorder, such as: Clerk: Do you solemnly swear that the testimony you are about to given in the cause now pending before this court shall be the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth, so help you God? Witness: Yes, I swear. I’ll say anything but the truth, nothing but the truth.

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Publisher : Ncra Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Disorder in the Court written by and published by Ncra Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Rodney R. Jones
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 9780393319262
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Disorderly Conduct written by Rodney R. Jones and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 1999-07-07 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This assortment of unintentionally amusing courtroom exchanges ranges from the testimony of expert witnesses to jury selection to cross examination to creative defense, closing argument, and sentencing -- a rollicking guide to America's legal system.

Author : Ginger Lerner-Wren
Publisher : Beacon Press
ISBN 13 : 0807086983
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Court of Refuge written by Ginger Lerner-Wren and published by Beacon Press. This book was released on 2018-03-06 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of America’s first Mental Health Court as told by its presiding judge, Judge Ginger Lerner-Wren—from its inception in 1997 to its implementation in over 400 courts across the nation As a young legal advocate, Ginger Lerner-Wren bore witness to the consequences of an underdeveloped mental health care infrastructure. Unable to do more than offer guidance, she watched families being torn apart as client after client was ensnared in the criminal system for crimes committed as a result of addiction, homelessness, and mental illness. She soon learned this was a far-reaching crisis—estimates show that in forty-four states, jails and prisons house ten times more people with serious mental illnesses than state psychiatric hospitals. In A Court of Refuge, Judge Ginger Lerner-Wren tells the story of how the first dedicated mental health court in the United States grew from an offshoot of her criminal division, held during lunch hour without the aid of any federal funding, to a revolutionary institution. Of the two hundred thousand people behind bars at the court’s inception in 1997, more than one in ten were known to have schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, or major depression. To date, the court has successfully diverted more than twenty thousand people suffering from various psychiatric conditions from jail and into treatment facilities and other community resources. Working under the theoretical framework of therapeutic jurisprudence, Judge Lerner-Wren and her growing network of fierce, determined advocates, families, and supporters sparked a national movement to conceptualize courts as a place of healing. Today, there are hundreds of such courts in the US. Poignant and compassionately written, A Court of Refuge demonstrates both the potential relief mental health courts can provide to underserved communities and their limitations in a system in dire need of vast overhauls of the policies that got us here. Lerner-Wren presents a refreshing possibility for a future in which criminal justice and mental health care can work in tandem to address this vexing human rights issue—and to change our attitudes about mental illness as a whole.

Author : Thom Hartmann
Publisher : Berrett-Koehler Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1523085967
Total Pages : 193 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Hidden History of the Supreme Court and the Betrayal of America written by Thom Hartmann and published by Berrett-Koehler Publishers. This book was released on 2019-10-01 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thom Hartmann, the most popular progressive radio host in America and a New York Times bestselling author, explains how the Supreme Court has spilled beyond its Constitutional powers and how we the people should take that power back. Taking his typically in-depth, historically informed view, Thom Hartmann asks, What if the Supreme Court didn't have the power to strike down laws? According to the Constitution, it doesn't. From the founding of the republic until 1803, the Supreme Court was the final court of appeals, as it was always meant to be. So where did the concept of judicial review start? As so much of modern American history, it began with the battle between the Federalists and Anti-Federalists, and with Marbury v. Madison. Hartmann argues it is not the role of the Supreme Court to decide what the law is but rather the duty of the people themselves. He lays out the history of the Supreme Court of the United States, since Alexander Hamilton's defense to modern-day debates, with key examples of cases where the Supreme Court overstepped its constitutional powers. The ultimate remedy to the Supreme Court's abuse of power is with the people--the ultimate arbiter of the law--using the ballot box. America does not belong to the kings and queens; it belongs to the people.

Author : Christopher Waldrep
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 9780252067327
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Roots of Disorder written by Christopher Waldrep and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Every white southerner understood what keeping African Americans "down" meant and what it did not mean. It did not mean going to court; it did not mean relying on the law. It meant vigilante violence and lynching. Looking at Vicksburg, Mississippi, Roots of Disorder traces the origins of these terrible attitudes to the day-to-day operations of local courts. In Vicksburg, white exploitation of black labor through slavery evolved into efforts to use the law to define blacks' place in society, setting the stage for widespread tolerance of brutal vigilantism. Fed by racism and economics, whites' extralegal violence grew in a hothouse of more general hostility toward law and courts. Roots of Disorder shows how the criminal justice system itself plays a role in shaping the attitudes that encourage vigilantism. "Delivers what no other study has yet attempted. . . . Waldrep's book is one of the first systematically to use local trial data to explore questions of society and culture." -- Vernon Burton, author of "A Gentleman and an Officer": A Social and Military History of James B. Griffin's Civil War