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The Miracle Case - Film Censorship And The Supreme Court

de Jr. Raymond J. Haberski, Laura Wittern-Keller e Raymond J. Haberski Jr.

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 It was only a forty-minute foreign film, but it sparked a legal confrontation that has left its mark on America for more than half a century. Roberto Rossellini’s Il Miracolo (The Miracle) is deceptively simple: a demented peasant woman is seduced by a stranger she believes to be Saint Joseph, is socially ostracized for becoming pregnant out of wedlock, but is finally redeemed through motherhood.Although initially approved by state censors for screening in New York, the film was attacked as sacrilegious by the Catholic establishment, which convinced state officials to revoke distributor Joseph Burstyn’s license. In response, Burstyn fought back through the courts and won.Laura Wittern-Keller and Raymond Haberski show how the Supreme Court’s unanimous 1952 ruling in Burstyn’s favor sparked a chain of litigation that eventually brought filmmaking under the protective umbrella of the First Amendment, overturning its long-outdated decision in Mutual v. Ohio (1915). Their story features a more formidable cast than did the film itself, with the charismatic Francis Cardinal Spellman decrying the film as a Communist plot, while outspoken film critic Bosley Crowther vigorously advocated “freedom of the screen.” Meanwhile, movie producers stood by silently for fear of alienating the Church and its large movie-going membership, leaving Burstyn to muster his own defense.More than the inside story of one case, this book explores the unique place that the movies occupy in American culture and the way that culture continues to be shaped by anxiety over the social power of movies. The Burstyn decision weakened the ability of state censorship boards and the Catholic Church to influence the types of films Americans were allowed to see. Consequently, the case signaled the rise of a new era in which films would be more mature and more controversial than ever before.Focusing on this single most important case in the jurisprudence surrounding motion picture expression, Wittern-Keller and Haberski add a significant new dimension to the story of cinema, censorship, and the history of First Amendment protections.
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Opposing Lincoln - Clement L. Vallandigham, Presidential Power, And The Legal Battle Over Dissent In Wartime

de Thomas C. Mackey

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 Examining the long-standing issue of the limits of political dissent in wartime, the book asks the critical historical question of what reasonable lengths a legitimate government can go to in order to protect itself and its citizens from threats, whether external or internal.
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Campaign Finance Cases - Buckley, Mcconnell, Citizens United, And Mccutcheon

de Melvin I. Urofsky

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 In timely fashion, this new edition updates Melvin Urofsky's classic study of campaign finance law, bringing his cogent analysis of the relevant statutes and court cases up to date. Urofsky explains in clear and convincing language what was - and is - at stake in the twists and turns of campaign finance laws taken up by Americaâ€™s highest court.
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Bush V. Gore - Exposing The Growing Crisis In American Democracy

de Charles L. Zelden

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 In this third expanded edition Charles Zelden offers a powerful history of voting rights and elections in America since 2000. Bush v. Gore exposes the growing crisis by detailing the numerous ways in which the unlearned and wrongly learned â€˜lessons of 2000â€™ have impacted American election law.
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Constitutional Rights Of Children - In Re Gault And Juvenile Justice

de David S. Tanenhaus

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 Chronicles the Supreme Court's 1967 decision in In re Gault, the landmark decision that's been widely celebrated as the most important children's rights case of the twentieth century. Addresses one of the fundamental and recurring problems in the history of law and society--how to treat young offenders.
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Murder In Mississippi - United States V. Price And The Struggle For Civil Rights

de Howard Ball

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 Few episodes in the modern civil rights movement were more galvanizing or more memorialized than the brutal murders of Michael Schwerner, Andrew Goodman, and James Chaney in the deep South. Here, Howard Ball reminds us just how problematic the prosecution of the murderers - all members of the KKK - actually was.
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Bakke Case - Race, Education, And Affirmative Action

de Howard Ball

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 Twice denied admission to a California medical school, despite better grades and test scores than successful minority applicants, Alan Bakke took his case to court. This is a review of the issues raised by this case that placed affirmative action on trial. It presents both sides of the debate.
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Great Yazoo Lands Sale - The Case Of Fletcher V. Peck

de Charles F. Hobson

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 The story of the landmark case of Fletcher v. Peck (1810), in which Chief Justice John Marshall first expounded the contract clause of the Constitution.
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Lochner V. New York - Economic Regulation On Trial

de Paul Kens

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 Lochner v. New York pitted a conservative activist judiciary against a reform-minded legislature, and is a frequently-cited case in Supreme Court history. In this guide Kens shows why the case remains an important marker in the ideological battles between the free market and the regulatory state.
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Deshaney Case - Child Abuse, Family Rights, And The Dilemma Of State Intervention

de Lynne Curry

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 Does the Constitution protect children from violent parents? The author shows that it was the central question at issue when Melody DeShaney initially sued Wisconsin for failing to protect her battered son Joshua from her estranged husband, thus violating her son's constitutional right to due process.
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Plessy V. Ferguson - Race And Inequality In Jim Crow America

de Williamjames Hull Hoffer

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 A concise readable summary and guide to "Plessy v. Ferguson" (1896), one of the Supreme Court's most famous and controversial decisions--one that offered legal cover for the practice of segregation for nearly six decades.
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Passenger Cases And The Commerce Clause - Immigrants, Blacks, And States'' Rights In Antebellum America

de Tony Allan Freyer

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 Focuses on the antebellum Supreme Court's role prescribing state-federal regulation of immigrants, the movement of free blacks within the United States and on the origins, state court decisions, federal precedents, appellate arguments, and opinion-making that culminated in the Court's decision of the Passenger Cases.
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Race, Sex, And The Freedom To Marry - Loving V. Virginia

de Peter Wallenstein

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 The history of the court battle over the right of interracial marriage which overturned discriminatory state laws and the precedent's value in the case for same-sex marriage.
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Judging The Boy Scouts Of America - Gay Rights, Freedom Of Association, And The Dale Case

de Richard J. Ellis

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 As Americans, we cherish the freedom to associate. However, with the freedom to associate comes the right to exclude those who do not share our values and goals. What happens when the freedom of association collides with the equally cherished principle that every individual should be free from invidious discrimination? This is precisely the question posed in Boy Scouts of America v. James Dale, a lawsuit that made its way through the courts over the course of a decade, culminating in 2000 with a landmark ruling by the U.S. Supreme Court. In Judging the Boy Scouts of America, Richard J. Ellis tells the fascinating story of the Dale case, placing it in the context of legal principles and precedents, Scouts'' policies, gay rights, and the "culture wars" in American politics. The story begins with James Dale, a nineteen-year old Eagle Scout and assistant scoutmaster in New Jersey, who came out as a gay man in the summer of 1990. The Boy Scouts, citing their policy that denied membership to "avowed homosexuals," promptly terminated Dale''s membership. Homosexuality, the Boy Scout leadership insisted, violated the Scouts'' pledge to be "morally straight." With the aid of the Lambda Legal Defense Fund, Dale sued for discrimination. Ellis tracks the case from its initial filing in New Jersey through the final decision of the U.S. Supreme Court in favor of the Scouts. In addition to examining the legal issues at stake, including the effect of the Supreme Court''s ruling on the law of free association, Ellis also describes Dale''s personal journey and its intersection with an evolving gay rights movement. Throughout he seeks to understand the puzzle of why the Boy Scouts would adopt and adhere to a policy that jeopardized the organization''s iconic place in American culture—and, finally, explores how legal challenges and cultural changes contributed to the Scouts'' historic policy reversal in May 2013 that ended the organization''s ban on gay youth (though not gay adults).
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Obscenity Rules - Roth V. United States And The Long Struggle Over Sexual Expression

de Whitney Strub

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 An examination of the landmark 1957 Supreme Court case "Roth v. United States," which for the first time attempted to define what constitutes obscenity in American life and law. Explores this problematic ruling within the broad sweep of American social and legal history.
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Vietnam War On Trial - The My Lai Massacre And The Court-Martial Of Lieutenant Calley

de Michal R. Belknap

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 The military trial of William Calley for his role in the slaughter of 500 or more Vietnamese civilians at My Lai shocked a nation already sharply divided over a controversial war. This work is a retelling of the My Lai story through the prism of the law.
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Japanese American Cases - The Rule Of Law In Time Of War

de Roger Daniels

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 "After Pearl Harbor, President Roosevelt, claiming a never documented "military necessity," ordered the removal and incarceration of 120,000 Japanese Americans during World War II solely because of their ancestry. As Roger Daniels movingly describes, almost all reluctantly obeyed their government and went peacefully to the desolate camps provided for them. Daniels, however, focuses on four Nisei, second-generation Japanese Americans, who, aided by a handful of lawyers, defied the government and their own community leaders by challenging the constitutionality of the government's orders. The 1942 convictions of three men--Min Yasui, Gordon Hirabayashi, and Fred Korematsu--who refused to go willingly were upheld by the Supreme Court in 1943 and 1944. But a woman, Mitsuye Endo, who obediently went to camp and then filed for a writ of habeas corpus, won her case. The Supreme Court subsequently ordered her release in 1944, following her two and a half years behind barbed wire. Neither the cases nor the fate of law-abiding Japanese attracted much attention during the turmoil of global warfare; in the postwar decades they were all but forgotten. Daniels traces how, four decades after the war, in an America whose attitudes about race and justice were changing, the surviving Japanese Americans achieved a measure of political and legal justice. Congress created a commission to investigate the legitimacy of the wartime incarceration. It found no military necessity, but rather that the causes were "race prejudice, war hysteria, and a failure of political leadership." In 1982 it asked Congress to apologize and award $20,000 to each survivor. A bill providing that compensation was finally passed and signed into law in 1988. There is no way to undo a Supreme Court decision, but teams of volunteer lawyers, overwhelmingly Sansei--third-generation Japanese Americans--used revelations in 1983 about the suppression of evidence by federal attorneys to persuade lower courts to overturn the convictions of Hirabayashi and Korematsu. Daniels traces the continuing changes in attitudes since the 1980s about the wartime cases and offers a sobering account that resonates with present-day issues of national security and individual freedom"--
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Discrediting The Red Scare - The Cold War Trials Of James Kutcher, "The Legless Veteran"

de Robert Justin Goldstein

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 The story of an American World War II veteran who lost both legs in combat, and whose long-running battle against a variety of types of persecution directed against him during the post-War Red Scare helped to seriously discredit it.
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Rutgers V. Waddington - Alexander Hamilton, The End Of The War For Independence, And The Origins Of Judicial Review

de Peter Charles Hoffer

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 Once the dust of the Revolution settled, the problem of reconciling the erstwhile warring factions arose, and as is often the case the matter made its way into the legal arena. Rutgers v. Waddington was such a case. Through this little-known but remarkable dispute, Peter Charles Hoffer recounts a tale of political and constitutional intrigue.
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9/11 Terror Cases - Constitutional Challenges In The War Against Al Qaeda

de Allan A. Ryan

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 The terrorist attacks of 9/11 are indelibly etched into our cultural memory. This is the story of how the legal ramifications of that day brought two US presidents, Congress, and the Supreme Court into repeated confrontation over the incarceration of hundreds of suspected terrorists and â€œenemy combatantsâ€ at the US naval base in GuantÃ¡namo, Cuba.
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Speaking Freely - Whitney V. California And American Speech Law

de Philippa Strum

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 "Speaking Freely" tells the story of how and why Americans today came to enjoy the most liberal speech laws in the world.
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Lizzie Borden On Trial - Murder, Ethnicity, And Gender

de Joseph A. Conforti

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 A new look at the famous Lizzie Borden murder case and how it turned into a 19th century media spectacle.
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Obscenity Rules - Roth V. United States' And The Long Struggle Over Sexual Expression

de Whitney Strub

40,49€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

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 An examination of the landmark 1957 Supreme Court case "Roth v. United States," which for the first time attempted to define what constitutes obscenity in American life and law. Explores this problematic ruling within the broad sweep of American social and legal history.
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The Tokyo Rose Case - Treason On Trial

de Yasuhide Kawashima

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 The tragic tale of Iva Ikuku Toguri, an American citizen wrongly convicted of treason fo r allegedly engaging in traitorous acts as World War II's infamous Toyko Rose.
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