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Books : Nonfiction : Law : Procedures & Litigation : Court Records
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We call habeas corpus the Great Writ of Liberty. But it was actually a writ of power. In a work based on an unprecedented study of thousands of cases across more than five hundred years, Paul Halliday provides a sweeping revisionist account of the world's most revered legal device.
In the decades around 1600, English judges used ideas about royal power to empower themselves to protect the king's subjects. The key was not the prisoner's "right" to "liberty"—these are modern idioms—but the possible wrongs committed by a jailer or anyone who ordered a prisoner detained. This focus on wrongs gave the writ the force necessary to protect ideas about rights as they developed outside of law. This judicial power carried the writ across the world, from Quebec to Bengal. Paradoxically, the representative impulse, most often expressed through legislative action, did more to undermine the writ than anything else. And the need to control imperial subjects would increasingly constrain judges. The imperial experience is thus crucial for making sense of the broader sweep of the writ's history and of English law.
Halliday's work informed the 2008 U.S. Supreme Court ruling in Boumediene v. Bush on prisoners in the Guantánamo detention camps. His eagerly anticipated book is certain to be acclaimed the definitive history of habeas corpus.
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This unique insider's look at the Supreme Court in session includes live recordings and transcripts of actual landmark cases, including Miranda v. Arizona (the right to remain silent), Roe v. Wade (abortion rights), Bowers v. Hardwick (gay rights), Regents v. Bakke (reverse discrimination), Loving v. Virginia (interracial marriage), United States v. Richard Nixon (Watergate), and many others. Previously only available through a visit to the National Archive in Washington, these tapes bring pivotal moments in American legal history to life.
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The recent Boumediene v. Bush decision, which tossed aside the dysfunctional military court system envisioned by the Bush administration and upheld the right of habeas corpus for detainees, promises to throw national security law into chaos, and will also probably lead to the closing of Guantanamo. In this timely and much-needed book, Glenn Sulmasy, one of America's leading experts on national security law, opens with a much-needed history of America's long and complicated experience with such courts since the early days of the Republic. After tracing their evolution in the contemporary era, Sulmasy argues for a more sensible approach to the global war on terror's unique set of prisoners. He proposes a reasonable "third way" solution that avoids even more extreme measures, on the one hand, and a complete shuttering of the court system, on the other. Instead, he advocates creating a separate standing judicial system, overseen by civilian judges, that allows for habeas corpus appeals and which focuses exclusively on existing war-on-terror cases as well as the inevitable cases to come. For all those who want to explore the crucial legal issues behind the headlines about Gitmo and the rights of detainees, The National Security Court System offers a clear-headed assessment of where we are and where we ought to be going.
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Do you need help with finding a missing person; locating assets or financial info.; checking the background of an individual; or checking the background of a bus.? Then you need this book! Our society is extremely dependent on info. Gov't. & private industry requires recordkeeping to regulate, license or hire. Individuals & entities create a paper trail of info. that is a history of daily life. You could say that the trail starts with a birth certificate, a Social Security Number or articles of incorporation. There are many records -- some accessible, some not -- that create an identity. This highly useful book examines these paper trails -- where they exist, when they are on the Internet, when they affect your life, & how you can use them to your benefit.
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Designed to provide practical guidelines for all machine shorthand writing professions, particularly court reporters.
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For and about students, the emphasis in this book is on constitutional knowledge, critical thinking, persuasive argument, and values clarification. Readers will learn the answers to: "why does the court decide a particular way"? and "why does the law change over time"?
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The records in this unpretentious volume are of four kinds--marriages, wills, Revolutionary petitions, and gravestones--though, indeed, the bulk of the work is comprised of marriage records and wills. The marriage records derive from the counties of Bedford, Franklin, Grayson, Pulaski, and Roanoke; and the wills from the counties of Bedford, Botetourt, Carroll, Floyd, Grayson, Pulaski, and Roanoke. There is also a scattering of Revolutionary petitions and tombstone records from many of these same counties. Although the dates of the records vary, most of them touch on the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Entries are arranged alphabetically under record group and county and concern approximately 9,000 persons.
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The latest edition of the popular test-preparation guide reviews all topics covered on the entry-level exam for clerical jobs and provides a diagnostic test and several practice tests.
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This sequel to the best-selling May It Please the Court focuses on key First Amendment cases illustrating the most controversial debates over issues of free speech, freedom of the press, and the right to assemble, including: Barnes v. Glen Theater (nude dancing), New York Times v. United States (the "Pentagon Papers" case), Texas v. Johnson (American flag burning), Brandenburg v. Ohio (hate speech by Klansmen) and Hustler Magazine, Inc. v. Falwell ("emotional distress" for parody advertisement). This paperback book includes transcriptions of oral arguments made before the Supreme Court, twelve of which have never been published. They offer an unrivaled view of the Supreme Court in action that will interest anyone wanting first-hand exposure to American law and history.
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Find out how attorneys and judges of this world really earn their daily bread. There is the judge whose amorous proclivities excluded no one, not even the rest of the court. How about the attorney who spent an entire night in the overly intimate embrace of a condom machine.Even when attorneys are working hard...how serious can you be about a one-eyed man who sues a movie theatre, claiming he should only pay half the admission price because he can only see half the movie?
Or the woman who sues after her successful heart transplant, claiming her sudden embarrassing urges to do somersaults and backflips at inappropriate times are due to the heart she received from a 24 year old motorcycle victim, who happened to be a circus acrobat.
There are light moments everywhere in the law courts of the land and Eric Chodak and Barry Seltzer have put together a collection of some of the more unusual, funny and bizarre gems.
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UN publication sales number E.08.XIV.2; HR/PUB/08/2.
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The appointments of Chief Justice John Roberts and Associate Justice Samuel Alito made this a momentous year for the Supreme Court. Now, speculation is rife about the impact these justices will have on our constitutional rights. In its first term, the new Roberts Court has tackled controversial cases involving assisted suicide, wetlands, campaign finance, free speech, and privacy rights--providing, in the process, important hints about the direction the new Court will chart. In this annual review from the Cato Institute, edited by Mark Moller, leading legal scholars analyze these and other far-reaching cases of the 2005-2006 Supreme Court term. More necessary than ever, the Cato Supreme Court Review is unique and timely reading, critiquing the Court's decisions and emerging directions with authenticity, insight, and clarity.
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This practical, real-world guide serves as a complete “how to” reference on the different aspects of court reporting. It uses easy-to-understand language to introduce both the basic and advanced concepts of court reporting across a wide range of court and legal procedures. The book is packed with general forms, sample written knowledge tests, and review questions designed to give learners an excellent source of information concerning how the court reporter functions in the real world, as well as actual issues they face. A five-part organization divides material into sections on General Information; Official Reporting; Freelance; Caption and CART; and Useful Information. Comprehensive coverage includes the various types of reporting assignments, administering oaths, notary public duties, taking and transcribing court cases, and video grand jury work. For court reporters, freelance reporters, closed captioning reporters, and CART providers.
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The Khmer Rouge held power in Cambodia from 1975 to 1979 and aggressively pursued a policy of radical social reform that resulted in the deaths of hundreds of thousands of Cambodians through mass executions and physical privation. In January 1979, the government was overthrown by former Khmer Rouge functionaries, with substantial backing from the army of Vietnam. In August of that year a special court, the People's Revolutionary Tribunal, was constituted to try two of the Khmer Rouge government's most powerful leaders, Pol Pot and Ieng Sary. The charge against them was genocide as it was defined in the United Nation's genocide convention of 1948. At the time, both men were in the Cambodian jungle leading the Khmer Rouge in a struggle to regain power; they were, therefore, tried in absentia.
Genocide in Cambodia assembles documents from this historic trial and contains extensive reports from the People's Revolutionary Tribunal. The book opens with essays that discuss the nature of the primary documents, and places the trial in its historical, legal, and political context. The documents are divided into three parts: those relating to the establishment of the tribunal; those used as evidence, including statements of witnesses, investigative reports of mass grave sites, expert opinions on the social and cultural impact of the actions of Pol Pot and Ieng Sary, and accounts from the foreign press; and finally the record of the trial, beginning with the prosecutor's indictment and ending with the concluding speeches by the attorneys for the defense and prosecution.
The trial of Pol Pot and Ieng Sary was the world's first genocide trial based on United Nations's policy as well as the first trial of a head of government on a human rights-related charge. This documentary record is significant for the history of Cambodia, and it will be of the highest importance as well to the international legal and human rights communities.
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This book is the first edition of Samuel Dodd's law reports. These cases date from the last third of the 17th Century and although they were not wholly unknown, they were in law French and unindexed — and thus, generally inaccessible. These cases are primarily from the Court of King's Bench and then from the Court of Exchequer. The exchequer cases help to fill the gap of exchequer reports that exists between Hardres' reports and Bunbury's reports. Only a handful of exchequer cases from this period were published in the general law reports, and these cases have been re-edited in this book so that all the exchequer cases in print between 1671 and 1713 are contained herein; all are in English and modern editorial practices have been used. Most importantly, all are in English and reflect modern editorial practices, and there is a subject index to this book so that the cases are accessible to the historical researcher.
Author W. Hamilton Bryson has included many interesting cases on juries, criminal law, land law and wills, creditor's rights, bankruptcy and the royal prerogative and revenue. This valuable reference should be in all academic and general law libraries.