[PDF] Orders And Opinions eBook

Author : American Bar Association. House of Delegates
Publisher : American Bar Association
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 20,13 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781590318737

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The Model Rules of Professional Conduct provides an up-to-date resource for information on legal ethics. Federal, state and local courts in all jurisdictions look to the Rules for guidance in solving lawyer malpractice cases, disciplinary actions, disqualification issues, sanctions questions and much more. In this volume, black-letter Rules of Professional Conduct are followed by numbered Comments that explain each Rule's purpose and provide suggestions for its practical application. The Rules will help you identify proper conduct in a variety of given situations, review those instances where discretionary action is possible, and define the nature of the relationship between you and your clients, colleagues and the courts.

Author : Joan Biskupic
Publisher : Basic Books
Page : 415 pages
File Size : 40,62 MB
Release : 2019-03-26
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0465093280

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An incisive biography of the Supreme Court's enigmatic Chief Justice, taking us inside the momentous legal decisions of his tenure so far. John Roberts was named to the Supreme Court in 2005 claiming he would act as a neutral umpire in deciding cases. His critics argue he has been anything but, pointing to his conservative victories on voting rights and campaign finance. Yet he broke from orthodoxy in his decision to preserve Obamacare. How are we to understand the motives of the most powerful judge in the land? In The Chief, award-winning journalist Joan Biskupic contends that Roberts is torn between two, often divergent, priorities: to carry out a conservative agenda, and to protect the Court's image and his place in history. Biskupic shows how Roberts's dual commitments have fostered distrust among his colleagues, with major consequences for the law. Trenchant and authoritative, The Chief reveals the making of a justice and the drama on this nation's highest court.

Author : Permanent Court of International Justice
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,47 MB
Release : 2012
Category : Law
ISBN : 9789211338058

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Contains summaries of the judgments, advisory opinions and orders of the Permanent Court of International Justice (PCIJ), from 1922 to 1946, in all the official languages of the United Nations. This publication is prepared by the Codification Division of the Office of Legal Affairs, in the framework of the United Nations Programme of Assistance in the Teaching, Study, Dissemination and Wider Appreciation of International Law. This website will contain electronic versions of published summaries of judgments, advisory opinions and orders, prepared by the PCIJ, and summaries of all separate or dissenting opinions by the Judges, prepared by the Codification Division of the Office of Legal Affairs. While the reports of the Court appear exclusively in its two official languages (English and French), the present publication is made available in all the official languages of the United Nations, thus aiming at increasing public awareness of the work of the Court and facilitating access to its jurisprudence. The summaries are made available for information purposes and should not be quoted as the actual texts they refer to.

Author : Ryan C. Black
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 197 pages
File Size : 45,76 MB
Release : 2016-04-06
Category : Law
ISBN : 1107137144

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An investigation of how US Supreme Court justices alter the clarity of their opinions based on expected reactions from their audiences.

Author : James L. Haley
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 351 pages
File Size : 30,74 MB
Release : 2013-02-15
Category : History
ISBN : 0292744587

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“Few people realize that in the area of law, Texas began its American journey far ahead of most of the rest of the country, far more enlightened on such subjects as women’s rights and the protection of debtors.” Thus James Haley begins this highly readable account of the Texas Supreme Court. The first book-length history of the Court published since 1917, it tells the story of the Texas Supreme Court from its origins in the Republic of Texas to the political and philosophical upheavals of the mid-1980s. Using a lively narrative style rather than a legalistic approach, Haley describes the twists and turns of an evolving judiciary both empowered and constrained by its dual ties to Spanish civil law and English common law. He focuses on the personalities and judicial philosophies of those who served on the Supreme Court, as well as on the interplay between the Court’s rulings and the state’s unique history in such areas as slavery, women’s rights, land and water rights, the rise of the railroad and oil and gas industries, Prohibition, civil rights, and consumer protection. The book is illustrated with more than fifty historical photos, many from the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. It concludes with a detailed chronology of milestones in the Supreme Court’s history and a list, with appointment and election dates, of the more than 150 justices who have served on the Court since 1836.

Author : Antonin Scalia
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 36,6 MB
Release : 2016-04-04
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1621575330

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"The passing of this brilliant jurist is a great loss, but his writings—with their plain language and constitutional moorings—will guide generations to come." - Speaker of the House Paul Ryan The sudden passing of Justice Antonin Scalia shook America. After almost thirty years on the Supreme Court, Scalia had become as integral to the institution as the hallowed room in which he sat. His wisecracking interruptions during oral arguments, his unmatched legal wisdom, his unwavering dedication to the Constitution, and his blistering dissents defined his leadership role on the court and inspired new generations of policymakers and legal minds. Now, as Republicans and Democrats wage war over Scalia’s lamentably empty Supreme Court seat, Kevin Ring, former counsel to the U.S. Senate’s Constitution Subcommittee, has taken a close look at the cases that best illustrate Scalia’s character, philosophy, and legacy. In Scalia’s Court: A Legacy of Landmark Opinions and Dissents, Ring collects Scalia’s most memorable opinions on free speech, separation of powers, race, religious freedom, the rights of the accused, abortion, and more; and intersperses Scalia's own words with an analysis of his legal reasoning and his lasting impact on American jurisprudence. “I don’t worry about my legacy,” Scalia once told an audience at the National Archives. “Just do your job right, and who cares?” Now that "the lion of American law has left the stage,” as the U.S. Attorney General put it, it is for the rest of America to worry about his legacy—and to care.

Author : T.R. van Geel
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 211 pages
File Size : 20,36 MB
Release : 2015-09-25
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1317342763

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This book provides an introduction to the legal reasoning and the modes of persuasion and justification used by Supreme Court justices in the United States, as well as others engaged in constitutional adjudication. It is designed to be used as a supplement to a constitutional law casebook.